I always keep one ear on high alert for Mexican jangle, of any nature. The acts of the country seem to have a propensity to derive additional originality from deep within the core of anything that jangles. Cuarto Paisaje, the project of the multi talented, Tijuana based, Melisa Arreola, is the next to offer such Central American progressiveness. 

The very best of this release proffers a sweetness from a dank core. All early Cocteau Twins swirling dream-pop, juxtaposed with the lucid jangled riffs of countryman, Noble Trovador, in Salir De Aqui, the title track and Dejarnos lr, Arreola finds the sweetest of spots, as she tests the boundaries between dream-pop and shoegaze.

The remainder of the tracks are far more definitive as they jump firmly into a shoegaze swirl, albeit with one foot firmly remaining in ‘pretty territory’ courtesy of the hushed, The Luxembourg Signal style vocals.

These tracks may not really have that Mexican essence of lucid jangle to them, but they would sit wonderfully alongside much of a latter day Sunday Records catalogue, that is so replete with similar levels of churning saccharine.

To be honest I had not been aware of this project before this release, although there is a 2013 debut album on Bandcamp. Let’s just hope it will not be another eight years before Arreola provides us with similar beauty.

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