Love the fusion of the sleazier elements of darkwave with the Gothic end of cumbia. Reminds me a lot of the sweaty backroom parties in East LA that my tios would talk about as the nirvana of the 90s. - Gabriel Lopez on Edgar ‘Pavor’ edgar-mx.bandcamp.com/album/…

Late in Pavor, his first album as Edgar, Luis Gutierrez delivers a cover of Amanda Lear’s “Follow Me” a sultry mix of new wave, disco, and Weimar-esque cabaret is synonymous with clandestine late-night revelry. All of those things are true of Pavor as well. Gutierrez works primarily in the milieu of dark-hued synth-pop which he occasionally spikes with light dashes of cumbia but all of it is a little sinister, a little sexy, and a little surreal. The title track is a herky-jerk synth track, like Kraftwerk with a little more hip-swivel. “La Tez” is breathless electro, tumbling through the city streets of the 1980s from one party to the next. Gutierrez has a deep, smoky voice, all the better to sell the music’s seductiveness even on a track like “Lechuga,” with its robotic rhythms and wild, wavy electronics. For Edgar, night time is the right time; Pavor is come-on music for the android disco. @Bandcamp review edgar-mx.bandcamp.com/album/…