Swiss-Ecuadorian duo Hermanos Gutiérrez, comprised of brothers Estevan and Alejandro Gutiérrez, today announce the details of their forthcoming new album. Entitled El Bueno Y El Malo, the record is set for release on October 28, 2022 via Easy Eye Sound, the acclaimed label founded and run by the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach. The stunning, stirring first single from the record, the album’s title track, is available to listen to here:
Following select sold out shows at New York’s Bowery Ballroom and LA’s the Hollywood Forever Masonic Lodge, the duo have also announced their first American headline tour and will also be performing across Europe in 2022 including in London at EartH in Hackney on October 3rd 2022.
“When Alejandro and I play together, it’s like we are driving a car,” says Estevan Gutiérrez. “It’s like we are taking a road trip. Sometimes we’re driving through a desert. Sometimes we’re traveling up the coast. But always we are in nature, and we see the most beautiful landscapes, sunrises, sunsets.” The music these two brothers make evokes expansive plains and rough wildernesses, saguaros and surfs, spaghetti westerns and Morricone soundtracks, Lynch and Jarmusch. With their guitars they travel through landscapes haunted by vaqueros, cancioneros, wanderers, fugitives, lovers, family—and whatever ghosts their listeners bring to the music.
El Bueno Y El Malo is their most epic journey yet: working with Dan Auerbach at his Easy Eye Sound Studio in Nashville, they’ve crafted ten vivid compositions that highlight their intimate guitar playing, where one brother’s rhythms and the other brother’s melodies twine around each other so that they become inextricable. Together, they generate what Estevan calls a “deeper, darker energy” defined by complex arrangements, sophisticated playing, and most of all their very close relationship.
