Las Nubes Weather the Storm Featured
- Written by Marky Edison
Las Nubes Weather the Storm
Las Nubes return with Tormentas Malsanas, their first LP since 2019’s SMVT debut. Formed by Miami DIY music mainstays Ale Campos and Emile Milgrim, their fuzzy, bilingual, ‘90s-influenced punk rock meets dream pop sound received significant acclaim and earned them opportunities to tour and record sessions all across the US and Mexico with the likes of Shannon and the Clams, Jens Lekman, The Coathangers, Sheer Mag, Mark Sultan, Torche, and Alice Bag. They even backed Iggy Pop as his first-ever all-female incarnation of The Stooges (as captured on the Live Nubes collection).
Tormentas Malsanas translates to “unhealthy storms,” a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the reality of living through Miami summers. Similar to the way a clear day turns gray, the new album addresses common and uncommon struggles through the energetic buoyancy of Las Nubes’s trademark loud as hell, garage pop sound. The heavy emotions addressed through the lyrics crossed with their vibrant and dynamic instrumental arrangements give the album a sense of hopefulness that reminds listeners: even the most turbulent moments don’t last forever.
The album’s lead single, ‘Enredados’, was released through Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace / Daydream Library in late 2023 as a preview of the sonic experience to come, and was followed with the dreamy punk rock of ‘Would Be’ and sludgy stoner stomper ‘Pesada’. Tormentas Malsanas was released via Sweat Records, Spinda Records (EU), and Godless America on vinyl, CD and cassette.
