Puerto Rican indie duo Buscabulla share new single '11:11', the group's first original new song since their breakthrough debut album Regresa in 2020.
Taking rhythmic inspiration from merengue and other Caribbean genres, Buscabulla’s co-founders Raquel Berrios and Luis Del Valle intentionally deliver the dynamic energy of the live shows through ’11:11′. The song was inspired by the music that Berrios and Del Valle would hear their mums blasting from the stereo on cleaning days in their childhood.
’11:11′ is accompanied by an official video directed by Jorge (Fish) Rodriguez. The video presents a woman in the middle of an existential crisis overwhelmed by her eternally dirty house. The clock keeps ticking as she dances and scrubs frantically trying to liberate herself from the repetitive and mundane task, in a way waiting for a miracle. ’11:11′ is the sign of the universe telling you that “life’s too short” and that you must grab the spiritual reigns of your life by cleansing yourself of dirty unproductive thoughts.
Listen to ’11:11′ by Buscabulla on the F1 Tracks playlist on Spotify.
The past few years for Buscabulla have changed the Puerto Rican band forever. Wild career highs, an unexpected creative standstill, a deeply felt familial loss — it all sparked serious reflection in Berrios and Del Valle. There was something cosmic in how everything unfolded. ’11:11′ arrives imbued with a certain mysticism. Named for Berrios’ ubiquitous angel number, the track marks the start of a fresh. very pointed chapter for the band. “You have a purpose, and you have to fulfill it,” Berrios says. “That’s what this new era is about.”
Rewind to the band’s debut album, Regresa. A release long anticipated by fans who’d followed the band throughout the course of EPs and singles for nearly a decade. But it dropped as the pandemic went full tilt, just after two damaging earthquakes hit Puerto Rico. Their elation turned to fear: Regresa would be lost to its tragic macro environment.
Thankfully, Berrios and Del Valle were wrong. While a planned tour was postponed, fans still connected deeply with Regresa. Unexpectedly homebound listeners found a special kind of solace in the album, which centers on the pair’s return home to their native Puerto Rico after living in New York for more than a decade.
Regresa also attracted a major celebrity: Bad Bunny. And on Easter Sunday of 2022, his producer, MAG, reached out to Buscabulla. The Puerto Rican megastar wanted to collaborate. Buscabulla was given total creative freedom to shape what would ultimately become ‘Andrea’, released on Bad Bunny’s chart-annihilating Un Verano Sin Ti.
The track has amassed more than 430 million streams on Spotify alone. Then came the concerts for crowds of hundreds of thousands. For Buscabulla, these performances were as game-changing as the album guest spot itself. Buscabulla joined a spectacular roster of guests at Bad Bunny stadium shows in Puerto Rico, Mexico and the U.S.
