Mint Field - Aprender a SerTime. Its something we tend to cherish. As a band, youre typically thrown into more than usual stressful scenarios when recording albums and rushing decisions becomes the norm. Mexico Citys Mint Field knows this all too well. Rewind to the spring of 2020 (yes, Covid). The band started fleshing out their new album Aprender a Ser (meaning Learn To Be in English), the follow up to 2020s minimalist psych shoegaze album, Sentimiento Mundial. For the first

with artwork and images from Marty Perez and James Warden

and to the South there was Mexico

Sadness never sounded so luscious

But by their first recordings in 1979 they were something else entirely – pioneers of infectiously melodic

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and introspection

Collectively

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is best experienced using a smartphone running a third party stroboscope app

‘Annual’ opens with ‘Dawn’ which brings to mind the peace and space of Miles Davis' ‘In A Silent Way’

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it made it easier to try something new