Joliette | “Pérdidas Variables” LP

Estimated Ship Date is June 20, 2025

On Joliette’s new album, Pérdidas Variables, the Mexico City quartet takes the urgency of scene heroes like Saetia and Raein and laces it with the brooding, post-metal grandeur of Neurosis or Cult of Luna. While some bands in the genre use sloppiness as their medium, wielding chaos to convey emotional fragility, Joliette moves as steadily as a freight train.

The rhythm section of Hugo Madrid and Matías Acuña bangs and growls in perfect, propulsive unity, while the guitars of Gastón Prado and Juan Pablo Castillo combine into apocalyptic storm clouds of sound. Screaming in his native Spanish, Gastón Prado’s earnest voice transcends language barriers. Loud in the mix, his raspy pleas demands attention as they transmit universal angst.

Pérdidas Variables is an album inspired by Joliette’s hometown. “It’s a meditation on Mexico City,” states Juan Pablo Castillo, “as both a physical space and a psychological one, a place constantly shifting under your feet, full of layers, ruins, and noise. The lyrics are rooted in very real fears, earthquakes, collapse, systems failing, but they’re also about the quiet, daily sense of disconnection and mourning that urban life can bring. Each song looks at a different fragment of that experience.”

“Pérdidas Variables” was recorded by Matías Acuña and Fernando G. Esteve, mixed by Hugo Madrid, and mastered by Paolo Riffo. The LP comes packaged in full color jacket with lyric insert.