alma blindada by nudo

'alma blindada' is about human violence as a force of nature. of the geographic and cultural entropy caused by people and their lives and their toil and their pursuit of money and power and joy.

we came to this via heavily following border war and cartel violence news/corrido lore, the power vacuums, the cannibalization of heroes and villains and how who’s who morphs depending on what side you’re rooting for or what area you’re from. we knew we wanted full unironic corridos, we knew we wanted songs and not just world building exercises.

alma blindada means like armored soul, or bulletproof spirit, and for us this is a phrase of reverence of the vast spectrum of potentiality within each person, to enrich or destroy, to tear down or build up. but ‘blindado’ is also maña slang for a ‘protected’ person. so it fit in with the feeling we were trying to convey. of finding the brutal poignancy of the beheading video or the in jokes in the foot soldiers’ wartime loyalty twitter rant. of remaining friends and riders after passing thru the ringer of war, spiritual or physical. the war of the every day, the high stakes of living and working and making your life on the 3.7 million mile wide sacrificial altar they call america.

alma blindada is out on halcyon veil on july 26, 2024.