Mexico (GusGus album)

Mexico
Studio album by GusGus
Released 23 June 2014
Recorded 2013–2014
Genre Tech house, progressive house, electro house, downtempo
Length 49:45
Label Kompakt
GusGus chronology
Arabian Horse
(2011)Arabian Horse2011		 Mexico
(2014)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
MusicOMH[2]
The Guardian[3]
Drowned In Sound[4]
PopMatters[5]

Mexico is the ninth studio album by the Icelandic electronic musicians GusGus, released on Kompakt label,[6] following successful album Arabian Horse. It contains nine tracks, one of which is instrumental. After several line-up changes, Mexico was produced by Stephan Stephensen (aka President Bongo) and Birgir Þórarinsson (aka Biggi Veira). Högni Egilsson of Hjaltalín, Daníel Ágúst Haraldsson and Urður Hákonardóttir made appearance as vocalists for this LP.

The album title Mexico is a metaphor of "going west", as humans always tend to go in a westerly direction. Daníel, who came up with this idea as a name for an album, felt very strongly it. Högni lately explained that "sometimes the things that stand out lay behind meaning and intellectuality" and that "It’s not necessarily something that we can describe in any way."[7]

Track listing

All songs written by GusGus.

No.TitleLength
1."Obnoxiously Sexual"5:07
2."Another Life"5:35
3."Sustain"5:21
4."Crossfade"5:32
5."Airwaves"5:53
6."God Application"6:26
7."Not The First Time"5:53
8."Mexico"6:37
9."This Is What You Get When You Mess With Love"3:21

Chart positions

Chart (2014) Peak
position
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[8] 111
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)[8] 100
Germany Albums Chart[8] 62
Swiss Albums Chart[8] 82

References

  1. ↑ "Allmusic review".
  2. ↑ "MusicOMH review".
  3. ↑ "The Guardian review".
  4. ↑ "Drowned In Sound review".
  5. ↑ "PopMatters review".
  6. ↑ "GusGus - Mexico". Kompakt. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  7. ↑ "Icelanders GusGus on calling their new album Mexico: "It's a metaphor for going out west."". Beatport. Archived from the original on 2014-11-08.
  8. 1 2 3 4 "GusGus - Mexico" (in Dutch). Ultratop (BL). Hung Medien. Retrieved 5 January 2017.


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