Certainly, if you’ve been frequenting this site over the past year or so, the internationally renowned Brazilian psych rock quartet Boogarins quickly became a JOVM mainstay artist; in fact, you’ve likely seen several posts on the material off their most recent album Manual. Now, you may recall that during the band’s 2014 European tour, the members of the band spent two weeks in Jorge Explosion’s Estudio Circo Perrotti in Gijón, Spain, where they began tracking material, which would wind up comprising their sophomore effort, Manual,ou guia livre de dissolução dossonhos, which translates into English as Manual, or Free Guide to the Dissolution of Dreams. The material on the album is specifically meant to viewed as a diary — or a sort of dream journal. And as a result, the material is not only much more personal than their debut effort, it’s also their most socially conscious effort, as it draws from the socioeconomic and political issues that affected their homeland before, during and after the 2014 World Cup as entire neighborhoods were pushed aside and destroyed for massive commercial developments that helped wealthy global corporations make even more money, instead of uplifting those who desperately needed socioeconomic uplift — an uplift that the country’s poorest, most vulnerable and most at risk were promised. Thematically speaking, the phenomenon that informs Manual should feel frighteningly familiar as there’s a growing chasm between the haves and the have nots, while the world’s major cities are experiencing the effects of gentrification.
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