Lorelle Meets the Obsolete

Lorelle Meets the Obsolete is the duo Lorena Quintanilla and The Obsolete (née Alberto González), both of whom are guitar and bass players, primarily. Their music builds its psychedelic tones through krautrock type drones and combining them with the shoegaze sound. They also bring in some basic rock elements in the form of thumping dirty grooves, swirly guitars, a dark pulse and a rough, ragged sound. Vocalist Quintanilla sings with a soft voice that gives off ethereal vibes. The songs are in Spanish exclusively on 2019's De Facto, but before that she frequently went back and forth with English. They are effective as a duo in setting up a hypnotic tone and gently riding it without any disruptive, jarring turn. That said, when they decide to go in a more abrasive direction, their sound drifts closer to the Spacemen 3 sound.