Kinky

Along with Plastilina Mosh and Café Tacuba, Kinky are carving out an impressive niche in cooler-than-cool Mexican rock. Blending Latin alternative with groovy dance beats, this disc embraces trendy globalism: you can practically hear it on Milan's catwalks, in Buenos Aires' cafes, and all over South Beach.

The debut from Kinky is not so much about sex as it is about the group's hometown of
Monterrey, Mexico, the border region where club music, hip-hop and Latin overlap. Call it
space music for the Spanglish Age. But despite the band's electronic trappings --
keyboardist-programmer Ulises Lozano tends to dominate the fivesome -- Kinky has a
visceral, funky feel to it. Take the oddly catchy "Soun Tha Primer Amor," in whi... More >