INUNDAREMOS - Tanquemante

Hardly enough time to watch “Echaremos el Cielo Abajo a Patadas” by teodioteodio fade from our homepage, and it's already time to introduce a new Chilean band, once again with a high score. Another act filed under the seething nueva escena chilena that's got so many people talking around the world – it's more a geographic-attitudinal container than an actual genre, since each act has its own peculiarities and inclinations.

But let's get to Inundaremos, with this epic, weighty name of theirs, which in English we could translate as “we will flood”… of emotions, naturally. If water is the element evoked by the band's name, the album's title instead conjures fire. “Tanquemante” is a kind of blend of tanque and quemante, a burning tank.

The sixty-two seconds of the intro “Intromision” and the following track are enough to place them on a Cartesian plane of influences. An electronic flicker, then a bright acoustic arpeggio, and here come distortions and big-family folk choruses too, finally topped off with the inevitable horns swelling everything with emotional epicness. Early Arcade Fire (and its offshoots) on the x-axis then… the whole C86 indie pop universe on the y-axis point us toward the arrival of Francisca Fuenzalida's creamy, confessional voice as soon as she begins her tale of a heart wounded to death in “Sangre viva”.

Naturally, like all their scene-mates, Inundaremos are also keen to point out local influences, above all from the Eighties, such as Los Prisioneros and Electrodomésticos, inevitably folding shoegaze and post-punk into their sound.

As mentioned, Inundaremos's songs are often populated by pierced hearts, missed chances and loss, yet their approach always stays light, playful. As happens on their first little hit, “3300”. Between violin, cello and horns, duly steeped in a shoegaze bath, the track opens as a lively little polka, before spilling into the aching refrain “que me quiero quedar” (“I want to stay”). On “Nota Clara”, on the other hand, Vicente Reyes (also on violin) finally turns up the guitars and delivers a fine, nervy gallop. The other shoegaze number in the bunch is certainly “8veces”, complete with pleasant popping trumpet flourishes in the background and a piano run driving home its second half.

Between “100mts”, a melancholy song about emotional distance that gradually turns into the most engaging indie-folk romp of this debut, and a dark, creeping yet seductive “Abyecta”, which invites us to explore the depths of the personality we feel ashamed of, the tracklist keeps moving without a single misstep. Singling out a truly weak track here would be an exercise in futility.

As with much of the nueva escena, Inundaremos don't just add an Andean flavor to the genres they explore. Instead, they reinterpret them decisively, bending them to their own needs.

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25/05/2026