Mexico (GusGus album)

Mexico
Studio album by GusGus
Released 23 June 2014
Recorded 2013-2014
Genre Tech house, Progressive house, Electro house, Downtempo
Length 49:45
Label Kompakt
GusGus chronology
Arabian Horse
(2011)		 Mexico
(2014)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
MusicOMH[2]
The Guardian[3]
Drowned In Sound[4]
PopMatters[5]

Mexico is the ninth studio album by Icelandic electronic musicians GusGus released on Kompakt label,[6] following successful album Arabian Horse. It contains nine tracks which one of them is instrumental. After several line up changes of band members, Mexico is produced by Stephan Stephensen aka President Bongo and Birgir Þórarinsson aka Biggi Veira. Högni Egilsson of Hjaltalín, Daníel Ágúst Haraldsson and also Urður Hákonardóttir made appearance as vocalists for this LP.

The album title “Mexico” should stand for a metaphor of “going west”, as humans always tend to go west direction. Daníel, who came with this idea with name for an album, felt very strongly about such title. Högni lately explained that “sometimes the things that stand out lay behind meaning and intellectuality” and that “(Album title) It’s not necessarily something that we can describe in any way.”[7]

Track listing

All songs written by GusGus.

No. Title Length
1. "Obnoxiously Sexual"   5:07
2. "Another Life"   5:35
3. "Sustain"   5:21
4. "Crossfade"   5:32
5. "Airwaves"   5:53
6. "God Application"   6:26
7. "Not The First Time"   5:53
8. "Mexico"   6:37
9. "This Is What You Get When You Mess With Love"   3:21

Chart positions

Chart (2014) Peak
position
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[8] 111
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)[9] 100
Germany Albums Chart[10] 62
Swiss Albums Chart[11] 82

References

  1. ↑ "Allmusic review".
  2. ↑ "MusicOMH review".
  3. ↑ "The Guardian review".
  4. ↑ "Drowned In Sound review".
  5. ↑ "PopMatters review".
  6. ↑ "GusGus - Mexico". Kompakt. Retrieved 2014.
  7. ↑ "Icelanders GusGus on calling their new album Mexico: "It’s a metaphor for going out west."". Beatport. Retrieved 2014.
  8. ↑ "GusGus - Mexico" (in Dutch). Ultratop (BL). Hung Medien. Retrieved 2014.
  9. ↑ "GusGus - Mexico" (in Dutch). Ultratop (BL). Hung Medien. Retrieved 2014.
  10. ↑ "GusGus - Mexico" (in Dutch). Ultratop (BL). Hung Medien. Retrieved 2014.
  11. ↑ "GusGus - Mexico" (in Dutch). Ultratop (BL). Hung Medien. Retrieved 2014.


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