Miseress

Mueran Humanos consists of Carmen Burguess (vocals, drum machines, synths) and Tomas Nochteff (vocals, bass, drum machines) who together make propulsive, unfurling Spanish language pop songs using experimental, punk and avant-garde methods. Self-proclaimed outsider artists, Mueran Humanos combine electronic noise with raw sounds recorded or borrowed, both heavily processed: “There´s lots of repetition, it’s minimal but psychedelic and aggressive. Jokingly we refer to it as Rock Concrete, referencing musique concrete but without the academic side.”

Miseress, the first track from the record of the same name, delves into themes of resurrection, redemption and resilience. It follows a fictional character, named Miseress, as she triumphs over adversity. Un Lugar Ideal / An Ideal Place, a thudding, tortile pop song reminiscent of D.A.F., was inspired by one day of waitressing Burguess undertook at a hotel in a German holiday resort and focuses on the irony of feeling restless in a place which would otherwise be ‘ideal’. Mi Auto, a Kraftwerkesque fantasy homage to a car, sees Burguess and Nochteff work to create a tireless sound of linearity. There is a romanticism, often literary, to many of Mueran Humanos’ songs; Guerrero de la Gloria Negativa’s lyrics reference Philip K. Dick’s sci-fi novel VALIS, El Vino de las Orgias is scattered with fragments of dialogue from the French movie The Nun and El Círculo, recorded live in one day, takes inspiration from a Shakespearean quote in Henry IV: “And if we live, we live to tread on kings”.