ZZYZX

To be honest, I didn't even know the band was recording again, after all it was already 7 years since their last album. A friend commented with me about them and I suddenly realized that I hadn't even listened to the previous album, Fool Metal Jack.

After listening to Fool Metal Jack, not hearing anything really special on the first album after the band's return, Haih... or Amortecedor..., and after the ridiculous single released in 2015 (Eses ojos verdes) I asked myself: Is there any hope that in 2020 this version of Os Mutantes will release a good album??

The answer came quickly when I played Zzyzx: No !!!

First, since the return, Sérgio Dias decided that the new incarnation of the band would sing primarily in English, so everything exotic that the band had initially, died. Second, the production of all 3 albums since the return is terrible. Especially on the last two records. But in Zzyzx it get even worse, especially in the percussive sector, where the hell were Claudio Tchernev's drums recorded? In the kitchen of Sérgio Dias's house??? If he recorded anything because it looks like programmed drums in many songs, poorly programmed, let me add.

And in the end, we have the songs themselves, there is nothing in the new set of songs. At least in Fool Metal Jack the compositions were a bit daring, in Zzyzx there is nothing, despite the good lyrics, the album finishes without you being attached to any of the music. And this is just a terrible feeling. That you just geard an empty record. There were noted and words, but 'no sounds' came out of it.

Os Mutantes are legends in their classic phase and the Progressive phase is just as good in my opinion, but this band that has been recording again since 2006 is not a good one, period.