[engl] So, suddenly a new young band appears and everything we thought was solid and unmovable becomes a big pile of rubble. It’s that capacity to learn all the lessons, tear them apart and create something completely new, that only todays youth have. Theirs is the spark; theirs is the rage and force. Punk is theirs. With ‘Llarga vida al taranna?’, their first studio album, the very young Power Burkas instantly become the band we are talking about. Born in 2013, they released an EP, a demo and a cassette in less than two years; they will now publish their first LP, fifteen tracks that will leave many speechless. Prodigal sons of Vic, Power Burkas have no problem with drinking from many a fountain as long as they quench their thirst, from Fugazi to The Velvet Underground, from Minutemen to The Beatles, from Sonics to Jawbox and even vindicating the local bands they grew up with, Els Surfing SIrles, Tro?pical Ice Land or FP. That is how they achieve a mix of garage, 80’s punk, power pop and post-hardcore and turn it into a new complex free and perfectly solid sound. No cut and paste, no imposture. The album starts with urgency in “Potser”, making it clear there will be no half- heartlessness, and is followed by a high level hymn called “Ja ens entenem’. With just two songs, they prove the album will be anything but predictable. The unex- pected changes in rhythm flow naturally and you continually feel that the restrained nerve will explode into a melodic supernova at any moment. Just that happens in “Ferralla”, where a hysteric chorus with loud vocals and visions of raised fists breaks loose. Everything here is power and celebration (like the song that gives the album its name), or tension and dynamite (the speedy “20”). Power Burkas have an amazing capacity for knitting vocal melodies that are quite unusu- al in a guitar rock band (check out the beautiful “El pop I la gallega”, the dance- able “La mission de l’home e?s ser Patro?” or the exciting “Aiguarra?s”. “Llarga vida al taranna?” was recorded and mixed on low heat by Joan Peiron, gui- tarist and producer of FP. Together, he has managed to boost the bands naked yet immersive sound, their ready guitars, their tremendously creative rhythmic sec- tion, their memorable bass lines and vocals, that lay comfortably among both the intimate parts and the mad ‘shouted’ ones. “Llarga vida al taranna?” is no promise. It’s proof. Power Burkas will exceed all expectations.