Imagine the Circle Jerks playing a Lost Sounds song - but this is an all-girl band from Spain. The dueling female vocals are so incendiary, the music so snotty, catchier than the crabs. You will have to smash all the windows at your local police station and go skatethat new ditch the punks just dicovered in the dock yard in order to quell the itch. Your basement dance party requires this 45 or it'll expire. Does it get any better?? For this punk, it does not. Seriously - short, sharp and to the point. This record is not long enough, but maybe if it were any longer it would lose its power and frenzy. I have been watching this YouTube video of the Delinquents playing the last punk show at Raul's, some time in the early 80's. They play this song called something like "Food free food". Listening to Las Se�oras gives me the same feeling, but maybe with a little added "Amoeba" by the Adolescents. This makes me want to start a band pronto, which is the purpose of DIY punk rock, right?? -Layla Gibbon (MRR#330, Oct. 2010)

The Spanish scene is in the midst of a genuine resurgence right now, with great hardcore from La Vida es un Mus, the more garage-punk sounds of the Blondes Must Die roster and the whole Le Jonathan Reilly-related weird-punk group and much more. I haven't seen this much wax emanating from the Iberian peninsula at any time in my record reviewing "career". When the Las Senoras 7" arrived on the review desk, I immediately thought those crazy Spaniards had finally decided to tap into the Vivian Girls-esque fuzz-pop vein running from NYC direct to Slumberland HQ. If you put these girls in front of anyone and asked them where they were from based on looks alone (which is how all girl bands should be judged anyway, right?) anyone with half a clue would say Brooklyn. But on closer inspection, you would realize they're far too cute to hail from the 'burg, despite the proliferation of bangs, glasses and hip outfits. All five of them are genuinely stunning, which is a rarity. So I put this thing on expecting to hear the reverb to start flying, but lo and behold these senoritas are punk-rockers! And it's not bad! Who woulda thunk. Pretty straight rocking, not too far off from the style Silla Electrica are playing (and getting mounds of praise for) but a bit lighter and with some keyboard lines running through it all. I'm not usually a fan of the synth (and I think this would be even better without) but it's non-obtrusive and actually blends well enough to not sound like an afterthought. The vocals pass the test as well, not screechy or shrill at all and really a bit tough sounding. Four songs of energetic rock with a solid guitar tone and plenty of pep, gang vox (all in Espanol) on the hooks/chorus, "Desolacion" veers into danger-punk territory and overall it might have a slight latter day Rip Off vibe or an early Dirtnap feel. Shit, even the drummer is good. Damn catchy and not as New Wavey as the artwork might have you thinking. -Rich K. (Terminal Boredom, Summer 2010)