22/12/2025
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HABAK "Mil orquídeas en medio del desierto" album s/t
Special Indonesia realesed 150 copy
white cassette on screen printing
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Pre-order until December 27 th
Price : Rm25
Habak - Mil Orquídeas En Medio Del Desierto
Tijuana’s Habak return with their searing third full-length, Mil Orquídeas En Medio Del Desierto (A Thousand Orchids In The Middle Of The Desert). The band continue to forge fiercely melodic crust, with hauntingly captivating passages of dark folk leaning instrumentation and shimmering post-metal crescendos braided amid the vividly cathartic blackened hardcore eruptions. A finely executed balancing act in harnessing the delicate and the discordant in tensile harmony.
From the sombrely strummed introduction to the title track opener, Habak are in confidently expansive form. Songs are allowed the breathing room to fully unfurl, without compromising the seething intensity that has always defined their music. The band weave together harrowing vocals, spoken word, and sampled interludes to mesmerising effect. Their sweeping force is, perhaps, best captured as the instrumental opener to side two, En La Tempstad (In The Tempest), clears the mind after the roiling ferocity of Alienación Y Delirio (Alienation And Delirium). It then feeds into the uplifting Notas Sobre El Ovido (Notes On Oblivion), with its flares of beautifully whispered clean singing, which in turn seeps into the melancholic fury of Hacia El Abismo (Into The Abyss).
Lyrically, the band return to the spectral imagery of an ever-expanding desert, first evoked on their 2023 split with Làgrimas, to capture the all-pervasive impact of neoliberal economics on society. Dessaraigo (Uprooted) explores how this rationality has come to saturate society’s mode of thinking (‘Not only people die, words and ideas also perish’). Meanwhile, Alienación Y Delirio (Alienation And Delirium) tackles the relentless commodification of existence (‘We steal our own lives’) and Hacia El Abismo examines how a sense of perpetual crisis is fermented to reinforce the feeling that there is no alternative and to justify an ever more pronounced authoritarian turn (‘A collapse that seems to have no end’).
Notas Sobre El Ovido sees the band draw on the thinking of the Chilean writer, Roberto Bolaño, to examine how to create the space to cultivate fulfilling communities and to live for the moment rather than waiting for a utopia that may never arrive. As the closing track, Dejemos Hablar Al Viento, makes clear, this is not to accept to defeat, but to suggest that such resistance serves to both keep us human as well as to corrode the very strictures that bind us.
(Foundation Vinyl)
Listen :
https://habak.bandcamp.com/album/mil-orqui-deas-en-medio-del-desierto
