The show must go on; as entertainment, as a sedative, as a means
of distraction, as a business. This is how Cuarteto de Nos puts it in
their new song “Maldito Show,” which is now available on all digital
platforms.
Featuring the artistic production of Héctor Castillo,
with whom Cuarteto worked on their previous album “Jueves,” this is the third
and final single that the Uruguayan rock band presents ahead of the release of
their highly anticipated new album, which will drop in July. The project
remains in line with the previous album and sees the band working with more
than one artistic producer, dividing songs between the production of Eduardo
Cabra (Visitante) and Héctor Castillo.
On “Maldito Show,” Cuarteto de Nos dives into the society
of the spectacle, examining screens and codes, and questions the terms that
have been taken for granted in the times of screens, immediacy and the
ephemeral, where “nothing is more dramatic than a good scandal.”
Roberto Musso, the band’s singer and leader, describes the maldito (“cursed”)
show as a stage where, between random and intentional events, “war, sports,
politics, art, disasters, culture, and reality” intersect, “everything
captured and recorded by the eyes of the cameras that are constructing a
narrative as ruthless as it is spectacular. Life becomes a product.”
“A rendering of reality that illustrates something even more real
than the lived experience, more real than our own needs, reducing us to the
position of passive spectators in accepting the state of actual things,” asserts Musso.
This year, Cuarteto de Nos, winners of numerous awards including 2
Latin Grammys, has brought their music to more than 20 cities in Argentina,
Uruguay, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador and Peru. Now, in prelude to their next
album, they prepare to continue their journey through the continent with tour
dates that they will soon announce and that will reunite them with their fans
in Chile, Paraguay, Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic,
among other countries that will continue to be announced within the year. In
Chile, they sold out their first date so quickly that they have already
announced a second show on August 7 at Teatro Coliseo.
During these performances,
Cuarteto de Nos will begin to debut various songs from their new album,
including “Fiesta en lo del Dr. Hermes”, “La Ciudad sin Alma” and
the new single “Maldito Show
