Mexican band Molotov admits they are working on ‘new album’

Without a coronavirus infection after nearly two years of the pandemic, Mexican band Molotov cocktails confirmed on Friday that they were concerned to return to concerts face-to-face and announced that they were already bringing in new material after more than five years of not releasing an album.

“We are preparing a new album,” singer and guitarist Tito Fuentes told Efe at a press conference in Mexico City.

In regards to Fuentes’ response, the group’s guitarist, Mickey Huidobro, gestured to the singer not to talk more about the topic, so expectations about the potential material are growing.

“Since we’re not on tour and we’re all unemployed, we’re doing some songs (songs),” Fuentes added, without adding more information.

The band, which is celebrating its 26th anniversary this year, celebrates this achievement by being the official image of the Fitzer liquor, the “steel seltzer” whose design is the band’s own graphics, as they explain, its core.

“We can associate with brands of ‘chupe’ (alcohol) and anything bad for health. But we like people who make artisanal things and in Mexico there are not just global brands,” Huidobro said.

But although the band’s intent was to celebrate more than 25 years of making music, the festivities of more relaxed Mexican rock bands have been overshadowed by the pandemic since last year.

Because of this situation, Molotov intends to celebrate “as it should” and that idea still exists among its members.

And although the band was gradually returning to the stage, whether from other countries or with the new ways of holding concerts face to face in Mexico, they consider that the emotion of events face to face and without restrictions, is not compared to the formulas of the new forms that have emerged from the epidemic.

“We’re not fully back, we’ve made some attempts to get back to the States but it’s been very complicated, and we have to celebrate when there is a ‘chance’ (opportunity) and when health protocols allow it, because you have to be careful,” said bassist Paku Ayala.

Since its inception in the second half of the 1990s, Molotov has been characterized by its rebellious and controversial band as well as by using direct and ironic language.

Criticisms of the media and its ideological power in society abound, political satire and problems such as racism and immigration, in her words, a situation that has led to censorship of the country’s major television stations.