Mexico (GusGus album)

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Mexico
GusGus - Mexico.jpg
Studio album by
Released23 June 2014
Recorded2013–2014
Genre Tech house, progressive house, electro house, downtempo
Length49:45
Label Kompakt
GusGus chronology
Arabian Horse
(2011)
Mexico
(2014)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 68/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Drowned In Sound Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
MusicOMH Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
PopMatters 7/10 [6]

Mexico is the ninth studio album by the Icelandic electronic musicians GusGus, released on Kompakt label, [7] following successful album Arabian Horse. It contains nine tracks, one of which is instrumental. After several line-up changes, Mexico was produced by Stephan Stephensen (aka President Bongo) and Birgir Þórarinsson (aka Biggi Veira). Högni Egilsson of Hjaltalín, Daníel Ágúst Haraldsson and Urður Hákonardóttir made appearance as vocalists for this LP.

Contents

The album title Mexico is a metaphor of "going west", as humans always tend to go in a westerly direction.[ citation needed ] Daníel, who came up with this idea as a name for an album, felt very strongly it. Högni lately explained that "sometimes the things that stand out lay behind meaning and intellectuality" and that "It’s not necessarily something that we can describe in any way." [8]

Track listing

All songs written by GusGus.

No.TitleLength
1."Obnoxiously Sexual"5:07
2."Another Life"5:35
3."Sustain"5:21
4."Crossfade"5:32
5."Airwaves"5:53
6."God Application"6:26
7."Not The First Time"5:53
8."Mexico"6:37
9."This Is What You Get When You Mess With Love"3:21

Chart positions

Chart performance for Mexico
Chart (2014)Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [9] 111
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [10] 100
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [11] 62
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [12] 82

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