Los Bitchos – La Bomba
The London-based, internationally assembled female instrumental four-piece, Los Bitchos, today shares a brand new single and video, “La Bomba.” The first new material since their acclaimed 2022 debut, Let The Festivities Begin!, and last year’s follow-up EP, PAH!, “La Bomba” is an ‘80s Turkish psych-infused bop and comes accompanied by a video directed by long term artistic collaborator, Tom Mitchell.
The band share the following about the track, which was produced by Oli Barton Wood:
“‘La Bomba’ is a burst of energy and power! It’s just such a fun song – we started playing it at festivals
last summer and the energy felt so good!”
The beginning stabs are what came to me (Serra) first as I was cooking in my kitchen. There’s something quite heroic and powerful about the opening guitar tone and the stabs underneath them. The twangy guitar tone cuts through the chaotic landscape of claps, pumping disco bassline and dreamy swirling synth sounds. The disco era influence is quite evident in this song, and I think the bassline sets the tone perfectly for this. Structurally the song delivers straight into a chorus (as Nile Rogers said, why wait). We wanted to keep this as close to a classic pop structure as possible, everything straight to the point.
The cherries on top are the little ping pong drum sounds (think Ring My Bell, Anita Ward) – they just make the track go off and totally emulate the feelings of euphoria and pure energy running through it.“
About the video they continue: “As it’s a high energy, pumping song, we needed to have really dynamic visuals to go with that and bring the song to life. The video has lots of shiny, glitterball moments and moves between performance and surreal segments. We had so much fun with make-up and styling for this video. Josefine saw this thing on tik tok where you film in a way which gives the illusion you’re riding a horse, so obviously we had a go and put that in the video last minute on set.”
05.17.24: About Pop, Stuttgart, DE
06.04.24: Aucard de Tours Festival, Tours, FR
07.13.24: BBK, Bilbao, ES
07.27.24: Deershed, Yorkshire, UK
08.02.24: Prestoso, Xedre, ES
08.11.24: Boardmasters, Newquay, UK
08.15.24: Parades De Coura, Parades, PT
08.17.24: Langs Akerselva, Oslo, NO
08.31.24: Nox Orae, La Tour de Peliz, CH
09.14.24: Plissken Festival, Athens, GR
09.15.24: Poplar, Trento, IT
North America:
09.23.24: Philadelphia, PA – Underground Arts
09.24.24: Washington, DC – Union Stage
09.26.24: New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
09.27.24: Montreal, QC – Pop Montreal
09.29.24: Toronto, ON – Great Hall
10.01.24: Seattle, WA – Crocodile
10.03.24: Los Angeles, CA – Teragram Ballroom
UK / Europe – newly announced:
10.19.24: Future Days Festival, Birmingham, UK
10.20.24: Button Factory, Dublin, IE
10.22.24: The Grove, Newcastle, U
10.23.24: Summerhall, Edinburgh, UK
10.24.24: QMU, Glasgow, UK
10.25.24: Irish Centre, Leeds, UK
10.26.24: O2 Ritz, Manchester, UK
10.28.24: Junction 2, Cambridge, UK
10.29.24: The 1865, Southampton, UK
10.30.24: SWX, Bristol, UK
11.01.24: Concorde 2, Brighton, UK
11.02.24: Lido, Margate, UK
11.07.24: O2 Forum, London, UK
11.12.24: La Cigale, Paris, FR
11.13.24: Stereolux, Nantes, FR
11.14.24: Epicerie Moderne, Lyon, FR
11.15.24: Locomotiv, Bologna, IT
11.16.24: Mascotte, Zurich, CH
11.18.24: Strom, Munich, DE
11.19.24: Wuk, Vienna, AT
11.21.24: Palac Akropolis, Prague, CZ
11.22.24: Festsaal, Berlin, DE
11.23.24: Niebo, Warsaw, PL
11.25.24: Knust, Hamburg, DE
11.27.24: Debaser, Stockholm, SE
11.28.24: Cosmopolite, Oslo, NO
11.29.24: Pustervik, Gothenburg, SE
11.30.24: Small Vega, Copenhagen, DK
12.02.24: Burgerweeshuis, Deventer, NL
12.03.24: Gebaude 9, Cologne, DE
12.04.24: AB Box, Brussels, BE
12.06.24: Paradiso, Amsterdam, NL
12.07.24: Aeronef, Lille, FR
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