Acclaimed Puerto Rican indie duo Buscabulla have shared their intensely liberating new single, 'Te Fuiste', available now via Domino.
“We needed this to be a high-energy song that you could jump to,” says Buscabulla co-founder Raquel Berrios. “The message is so cathartic that you almost need to dance to it to process the pain when you are losing the person you love.”
‘Te Fuiste’ marks the latest track release from Buscabulla’s upcoming new album, Se Amaba Así, arriving everywhere on June 13. A raw and penetrating song cycle exploring the struggles and challenges of relationships in the modern world, Se Amaba Así was heralded last month by the album’s cinematically incendiary opening track, ‘El Camino’.
Listen to ‘Te Fuiste’ on Shoot Music New Releases.
“We took the decided approach to turn inward, to ourselves, and explore the struggles of not only our own romantic relationship but romantic relationships in general,” Berrios says of the new album. “Wrestling between traditional versus modern ideas of love, Se Amaba Así is a cathartic, self-reflective journey of songs influenced by Latin and tropical genres of the past seen through a contemporary lens.”
Se Amaba Así – which loosely translates to “The way love was” – sees Buscabulla co-founders Raquel Berrios and Luis Del Valle devoting their eagerly awaited second album to the examination of modern love and instrumentalizing myriad strains of Latin music to explore the most intimate struggles as both artists and lovers. From the neo-doowop of ‘Mi Marido’ to the distorted guitars of ‘Mortal’, the album pushes the duo’s shared sonic world through dark synthesizers, witchy vocal loops, and the sharp snap of live percussion to create a singularly universal record about the difficulties inherent in keeping a relationship alive at this moment in time.
Buscabulla will celebrate the arrival of Se Amaba Así with a U.S. headline tour getting underway June 19 at Miami, FL’s ZeyZey and then continuing through mid-July. Highlights include stops at such vaunted venues as Chicago, IL’s Lincoln Hall (June 28), Los Angeles, CA’s The Belasco (July 3), Phoenix, AZ’s Crescent Ballroom (July 6), and Austin, TX’s Antone’s Nightclub (July 10). A special BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn show with Chuwi and Paso Negro is now confirmed for June 26.
