LOS NINOS DE COBRE

From the mountains of Mexico to the Mississippi delta to the garages of 1960s America to the Hollywood silent film studios of yore, The Cooper Gamins cover some major musical ground with just guitar, drums and vocals (and the occasional less-than-fully-strung mandolin). With a sound that ramps up primitivism into a modernist atomic blast, they play what The Big Takeover hails as raw cacophonic trash rock with wild child naivete with dirty, unrepentant 'bash the blues to hell' delinquency.It's just what comes naturally to singer, guitarist and songwriter Jose Carmen and drummer Claus Lafania. The result is a kinetic ball of lo-fi goodness, as Rank and Revue described their 2012 debut EP on Saustex Media. Now with their 17-song strong first full album, Los Ninos de Cobre, the duo splash their hotness onto the American roots'n'rock gumbo to offer a potentially lethal mix, as the San Antonio Current warns, of organic visionary indie music.