Dynamo (Soda Stereo Album)

Dynamo (Soda Stereo Album)

Dynamo is an album recorded by Argentine rock band Soda Stereo. It is their sixth full-length album and it was first released in Argentina by Sony Music Argentina in 1992.

Considered one of the referents shoegazing albums, this is a very modern album that might have been accepted in anglophone music, and was quite visionary for those years. The album also maintained the drastic change of music experienced in their previous album, Canción Animal. This album may also be considered one of most mature and virtuous deeds of the band.

A highly experimental record, it failed to reach its predecessor's popularity due to many factors, including lack of support from the band's label. It also alienated many fans, who had a hard time trying to cope with the unexpected shift in the band's musical style. Nonetheless, a few songs received a fair amount of radio airplay, including "Primavera 0" and "Luna Roja". Hard-core fans of Soda Stereo consider Dynamo to be their best album. The most notable songs are: 'Secuencia Inicial' (Initial Sequence) and 'En Remolinos' (In Whirlwinds), this last one being one of their most thrilling songs.

The release of Dynamo prompted a nationwide tour, including a six night residency at Arena Obras Sanitarias, then known as the "Temple of Rock" by the local press. The band invited several up-and-coming bands from the alternative scene such as Babasónicos, Juana La Loca and Martes Menta to fill the support slots at those concerts, thus giving exposure to a scene that would become influential (and in some cases commercially successful) over the years. In this respect it can be argued that in spite of an apparent commercial failure (it went Double Platinum within a few weeks), Soda Stereo were never as influential on the development of new bands as in the Dynamo era. It also established the band as a sort of forefathers of the 90s alternative scene in Argentina, even when their role was mostly as propagandists of sorts.