We wrote of Pancho Ballard and the Banditos – the best Mexican band to have come out of England – when they released the EP Five Songs for Oscar. We’re now happy to report that Pancho’s hooked up with animation studio Pew 36 to produce a terrific animated video for the song “The Cut-Throat of Old Mexico.” It’s a spaghetti western in which a zombie cowboy does battle with cactus monsters! Read the story here, and see the video here:
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Pancho Ballard: The Cut-Throat of Old Mexico
Thursday, July 1st, 2010Pancho Ballard and the Banditos: Five Songs for Oscar
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
Funny and surprisingly endearing “Mexican” music from… England!
If Nick Lowe had felt despondent after the dissolution of Brinsley Schwarz, and while drowning his sorrows in a Mexican town had stumbled into a studio, the resulting music might have sounded like this UK band’s new five-song EP. The melodies are pure pop, but sung with the flair of a gringo trying on faux-Mexican drama, and a horn section that’s as authentically South-of-the-Border as Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. The songs cover masked Mexican wrestling, a relationship-restoring recipe (based on the writer Isabel Allende’s “reconciliation soup”), and a painter whose trade as a forger casts a shadow on his soul. This might play more as a joke if the band weren’t good, but they actually match up to their guarantee: “The best Mexican band to have come out of England!” Well, “Mexican,” anyway. Their self-titled debut album, heavier on the ‘60s guitars, country-rock and humor, is available for free on their website, but this EP, particularly “Lucha Libre” and “Soup Song,” more deeply fulfills the band’s promise. [©2010 hyperbolium dot com] 
MP3 | Lucha Libre
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