Mexico (GusGus album)

Mexico
Studio album by GusGus
Released	23 June 2014
Recorded	2013–2014
Genre	Tech house, progressive house, electro house, downtempo
Length	49:45
Label	Kompakt
GusGus chronology
Arabian Horse (2011) Mexico (2014)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	68/100 [1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
Drowned In Sound	[3]
The Guardian	[4]
MusicOMH	[5]
PopMatters	7/10 [6]

Mexico is the ninth studio album by the Icelandic electronic musicians GusGus, released on Kompakt label, ^[7] following the 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.

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.	Title	Length
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

References

1. "Metacritic Review". Metacritic . Retrieved 28 April 2020.
2. Kellman, Andy. "AllMusic Review". AllMusic . Retrieved 28 April 2020.
3. Snax, Alex (25 June 2014). "Drowned In Sound review". Drowned in Sound . Archived from the original on 17 August 2018. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
4. MacInnes, Paul (20 June 2014). "The Guardian review". The Guardian . Retrieved 28 April 2020.
5. Maher, Amelia (23 June 2014). "MusicOMH review". MusicOMH . Retrieved 28 April 2020.
6. Houle, Zachary (22 June 2014). "PopMatters review". PopMatters . Retrieved 28 April 2020.
7. "GusGus - Mexico". Kompakt. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
8. "Icelanders GusGus on calling their new album Mexico: "It's a metaphor for going out west."". Beatport. Archived from the original on 2014-11-08.
9. "Ultratop.be – GusGus – Mexico" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
10. "Ultratop.be – GusGus – Mexico" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
11. "Offiziellecharts.de – GusGus – Mexico" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
12. "Swisscharts.com – GusGus – Mexico". Hung Medien. Retrieved 28 April 2020.