MÁS ALLÁ DE NUESTRAS MENTES DIMINUTAS

Strong debut from this Andalusian quintet, operating in a rather flamenco-rock style. Their style is rather breezier and melodic than most, suggesting Imán with a stronger flamenco bent, perhaps. Strengths: colourful guitarwork and expressive, clear-toned vocals. Weaknesses: thin keyboard sounds (particularly in the overuse of string-synth and transistor organ), poor production with muffled sound and a tendency to be rather longwinded-many of these songs could have had a couple of minutes trimmed off of them and been just as good if not better.

Better known for its scarcity than the music contained herein, Cai's debut was one of the few items to come out on the tiny, short-lived Lacochu label (alongside the exquisitely rare album by La Banda De Los Hermanos Cruz, which no one in the world seems to own).