"The World Is Trembling" is the new album by Lula, the Castellón trio led by the tremendous presence of Patrizia Escoin (ex Romeos). An impeccable collection of songs written with overwhelming sincerity. As if tomorrow is our last day on this planet. The spirited and fierce pop of their debut "New Shoes" (Lucinda Records, 2006) is assumed here and beyond the Nuevaolero pulse (from Blondie to Bangles) is the trio's ability to leave a piece of their soul in each note. There is the powerpopera urgency of some vitaminized songs with glorious choruses and sparkling guitars worthy of the Cheetah Chrome / Jimmy Zero tandem. And along with this, as a house brand, his astonishing ability to express in pieces of just 2 minutes the intimate confessions, grudges, loves and portraits of life and rock.
For "The World Is Shaking" melancholy and punk impudence, emotional revenge and street love walk hand in hand, Dee Dee Ramone and Marlyn Monroe walk together. And Bonnie and Clyde get horny in a car at full speed. The album opens with a playful and irresistible "What there is", the zigzagging guitar of "Say the worst" puts us in flour with vacant thrones of affections in low hours . "I love you / I don't love you" humorously describes the day-to-day life of a relationship with an accurate riff and sweet choruses like cotton candy, which give way to the Ramonian "Johnnie Walker", pure nocturnal manners of the rock world. There's a fan who can't decide between Johnny Thunders and the Stooges, and there's another fan on "Fatal Fan" who's getting it wrong. «Silvia» and «Minie» are two women who suffer the bitterness of their destiny. Silvia is real and Minie is a comic character from the story "Life of a Girl" (2005), by the North American creator Phoebe Gloeckner. Silvia's sad eyes turn unreal in fabulous, matthewsweetian halftime as Minie smokes the hours as Patrizia smokes them to the relentless rhythmic riding of Adela and Felix. Melancholy with retreat in "My ex and me" and wet speed in "Crash", a theme inspired by the film of the same title from 1996 directed by David Cronenberg, a sordid story in which sex, speed and death intersect. "Rubia de barco" is the closest thing to a reckoning ("now you're my dog") and has the fantastic structure of the best guitar pop, the one that made the Smithereens "Specially for You" or the "Specially for You" classic a classic. Teenage Symphonies to God »by Velvet Crush. Frustrations of teenagers in "Calls" and then a splendid adaptation of the eternal adolescent Lio and her hit "Amoureux solitaires" from the long gone 1980. "Dee Dee and Marilyn" is a heartfelt and moving elegy for Pedro López, Patrizia's partner in Los Romeos, who died just a few months ago. The title track closes the album, a song that definitely disarms and explains why Lula squeezes every minute and why there is a new album just a year after the first. Everything we don't do today is not going to come back.