With its idiosyncratic song structures and choice of instruments, Mexico City psych rock group Diles Que No Me Maten’s new album Escrito en Agua (“Written in Water” in Spanish) has more in common with jazz than alternative/post-punk music. Listening to the album you really get the sense each song has been sculpted and moulded, fermented and buffed to perfection. Take how the pedal steel on “Viene el viento” literally seems to moan, or the utterly beautiful saxophone and clarinet duet on “La rata modesta,” on which you can hear the valves opening and closing, the resonance of the reeds, the way the dissonance occasionally resolves like sunlight beamed through the gaps in moving clouds. Shorter instrumentals such as “La rata modesta” are common across…

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