LISTEN: Delgado Shares Fiery New Song “Canyons”

New album from his band Los Conejos de Amor, Tin Corazón, out July 19th

June 28, 2024June 28, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2024, California, Canyons, Chicago, Delgado, Delgado y Los Conejos de Amor, Ennio Morricone, Tin Corazón

“Dark Desert Swoon” is what California-based artist Delgado calls the music he creates with his band Los Conejos de Amor.

It’s a fitting amalgamation of Morricone-esque cool and post-punk urgency that spills together into one vibrant colour on the New Mexico native’s first album in 10 years, Tin Corazón, due out on July 19th. For Delgado, the album was the culmination of a storm of emotions he experienced between attending design school in Detroit and heading out West to the Golden State.

“I was going through a painful break-up and had to lay my cat to rest on the same day I moved into my own apartment” he tells. “I moved to California a few months later, and it just went from bad to worse. The stress of that situation just wasn’t allowing me to process all the changes and heartache. That’s when the music just started flowing out of me. And from that moment forward, I just kept on writing to exorcise the demons.”

The album was tracked remotely across four states during the pandemic with his band, Los Conejos De Amor (The Rabbits of Love), with Jason Davis producing, arranging and mixing at Off The Cuff Sound. For Delgado, Tin Corazón, with its drifting surf guitar tones crashing against the shoegaze sensibilities of his Chicago days, serves as a testament to his New Mexican origins.

“I have been on a bit of a journey to get in touch with my roots,” he tells Rock & Roll Globe. “I spent a good stretch of my youth in a hardworking midwestern town which unfortunately was also quite racist. So in those days I made an effort not to be noticed.”

Delgado y Los Conejos de Amor Canyons, self-released 2024

Today, we are honored to share the album’s second single, “Canyons,” a song that brings together Delgado’s hunger to explore his Latino heritage while lamenting about the succession of sociopolitical tragedies that plagued the American landscape during Trump’s first term in office.

“When I wrote Canyons I was teaching myself mariachi and flamenco guitar techniques and rhythms” he explains. “I didn’t plan on turning it into a rocker, but the energy of the mariachi time signature made not picking up my telecaster an impossibility. It was also a way to channel the rage I felt towards Mexican babies being stripped from their parents arms and thrown into cages at the border and the death of George Floyd over a bad $20 bill.”

For more information on Delgado and the happenings surrounding Tin Corazón, visit the band on their website or Instagram page.