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Zemog: Zemog: El Gallo Bueno

by Javier AQ Ortiz
February 25, 2003

Quick and to the Point: Alternative takes on Latin music articulating that, musical or not, life is too serious to take seriously...

Lyrics are not the strength of Zemog’s El Gallo Bueno, or the Good Rooster. More often than not, the vocals feel and seem in jest, albeit their conceptual and musical role is exquisitely fulfilled throughout the recording. Thankfully, nonetheless, they are devoid of the ordinary narcissistic self-angst –sans true understanding of anything– compulsory in much youthful ...