Páramo by Pablo Langaine lets silence speak louder than pandemonium. Written in the wake of the January 2025 wildfires that scarred Los Angeles, the Páramo EP captures a scorched city paused mid-breath. Drawing on his Latin American roots and threading them through ambient rock textures, Langaine has created an emotional, post-catastrophe meditation that resonates with loss, but also with a stubborn hope.
The title track “Páramo” opens the EP with slow-burning guitars, trembling cymbals, and drums that march like distant thunder. Langaine’s breathy, spectral vocals drift through the darkness like a soul searching for something still alive beneath the ash. Recorded during a blackout, it is immediate and elemental like a moment suspended in amber. By the time you get to “Sin Conocerte (Intro),” a quiet acoustic plucking piece, you’re lulled into an introspective space, just before it explodes into the full track “Sin Conocerte.” That song slaps harder than you expect, with soft, fuzzy guitars and tight, punchy drums that contrast beautifully with Langaine’s reflective, restrained vocals. He sings honestly like he’s letting you in on a quiet secret he’s still not sure he should say aloud.
“Calma,” one of the EP’s standout moments, sweeps in like a balm. With immersive, hypnotic electronic loops and slow-building strings, it evokes peace, like staring at ruins long enough that you begin to see the beauty in them. Langaine sings the word “Calma” over and over again, as though he is trying to manifest it in his life.
Páramo by Pablo Langaine is a gentle reckoning with grief, that stands strong to memory, and to a city still quietly standing.
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Review by: Naomi Joan