AJ Dávila – Beautiful
AJ DAVILA
“Beautiful”
El Futuro
Burger Records (2019)
https://burgerrecords.11spot.com/aj-davila-el-futuro-pre-order.html
The language of garage punk is not well adapted to expressing optimism. It’s usually more about fighting bad vibes with worse ones and flipping the bird at ill fortune, even (especially) if you brought it on yourself. On El Futuro, the third solo album from AJ Dávila, however, the former guitarist for sadly defunct Puerto Rican garage punk band Dávila 666 expands the genre’s vocabulary with an updated sound that promises a way forward for his music and for fucks-free rock ‘n’ roll in general.