In the film Isi / Disi (2004), starring by Santiago Segura and Florentino Fernandez , and in which he participated as a guest star Joaquin Sabina the ineffable , appeared from time to time one of those songs that take you to ask for their responsible, an electric spark of magic Beatle which ultimately was the real hidden secret of comedy. The song was "It's Only Love" and through her met Gurus, a Catalan group who had begun his career in 1998 with In the darkness, the record before us. Extremely difficult to find nowadays, it's dark can be defined as a Martian, the glorious product of a group that the manner of Spongetones , turned their love of the sixties in a round album, full of happy songs and powerful, a kind of fascinating flash-back to recover the innocence, freshness and vitality of the early records the Beatles. 
The Gurus endeavored to continue the journey begun by the Brincos four decades ago, the same year that the music press through the roof put a hard-to call it that, as A week on a bus engine of the Planets . The pop lens and the face came at a festival of sixteen songs, and though the album is one of the most exciting and humble works of English music, at the time this outpouring of enthusiasm, honesty and true passion was completely out (so much so that I could not even find a cover image .) It was a shame that almost nobody will notice, for example, on songs like "In the Dark", which is what opens the disc and that retrieves and furiously uninhibited spirit of the best Brincos, pop high quality the vocal harmonies and choruses are vital. "You will be part of me fall in love to those who enjoy albums A Hard Day's Night of the Beatles, who always have felt hypnotized for songs like "I Should Have Known Better" or "Happy Just To Dance With You." In short, the devotees of those melodies that at times dating back to adolescence and make them forget the cynicism accumulated over the years. It also smacks of British invasion "escape" with a guitar sound more inspired in the years after 1965, when hatched reign Rubber Soul and Revolver . 
The counterpoint is provided by the ballad "Words for her," oozing disappointment and nostalgia, a feeling that hurts off and parked the optimism to the hope of better times, and "When you're not," a of the best songs on the album, another influence appears remarkable group, the Raspberries : a sinuous melody with hints of what McCartney unstoppable extending over an addictive guitar line. Exciting, is a milestone to remember and a song at the height of the highlights of Eric Carmen . It is then when "Thousand moons back," absolutely energy to remove weight issue, festive, simple chords but direct and effective, a kind of Undertones tempered by the sensitivity of the Mersey Beat. "Toyland" is pure Lennon the early seventies, a song so lazy as charming that moves between melancholy pianos and guitars clean. Sensational, like "Inside, Out", which wears the colors of a psychedelic light to "Ticket To Ride" and yet still genuinely jubilant pop. 
But there are still amazing songs like "Hotel Quail", one of my favorite vitamin and addictive to the absolute limits, and alternating between melody and chorus without giving break hardened with the addition of some fabulous arrangements trumpet the "Penny Lane." In an album that shows so much culture and love of pop, could not miss the ragtime song and music-hall drops to Kinks -but so did the Beatles once in a while, in fact this song reminiscent of "I'm Only Sleeping" on Revolver - because "Let me drag along with me" could have made the best Ray Davies the following drink ten liters of English tea. Incredibly good. However, "Mr. Magi" takes up the challenge and is best if possible, bouncy and cheerful to the enthusiasm and, of course, a legendary chorus of those who call attention even at that time is a little confused. But beware, if this was not enough, "Rainy Days" is going to make us fall in love with this album, he looks like a ghost of Lennon song and McCartney at his best, in fact, that roughly "used to have" makes us think it's Lennon who is singing and that we put goosebumps, a highlight of the album not only for their quality, but also a symbol of their idiosyncrasies, "a kind of vibrant" And I Love Her "English. The Raspberries are back with the beautiful "La Calle 33", notable for their freshness, for his honesty, but above all for the tune sung as if it were not so bad but whose sharp hook will make us very difficult to get rid of it. "Because history is not of yesterday" is amphetamine-beat, dark, somewhat similar to the mysterious caverns that make up the Merseybeats , but as always, above all 100% Beatle. "Song of a poor boy" puts an end to an extraordinary record in a light, funny and charismatic. There is no beating about the bush. In the darkness is too good for so many years have been forgotten and, like in the child's country of fly the Impossible, a work born of both an outstanding talent as a series the true love of music (that kind of discs that will never speak in Rockdelux , as we say around here ), and so out of touch at the time that only the passage of time will put in place. The Gurus continued to record more albums, each time adding guitarfish and psychedelic doses of songs and switching to English, to reach its substantial but last rock album, Now (2008), little or nothing to do with In darkness.
The Gurus. In the dark (1998)
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