Bonde do Rolê, Tropicalbacanal

Edith Zimmerman
The Hairpin
Published in
1 min readAug 1, 2012

For a lively start to the day, here’s some “wild and weird and wonderful” music from Brazilian electropop group Bonde do Rolê. It’s their second album, Tropicalbacanal, which, per their label Mad Decent, “turn[s] Brazilian folk songs into dance tracks, and … make[s] rockabilly replays into haunting taunts.” (Tropicalbacanal is also available for $8.99 on iTunes.) It gets a little screamy around track seven. But then it comes back around.

Elsewhere: Nicki Minaj’s “Pound the Alarm” video.

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Edith Zimmerman
The Hairpin

Spiralbound editor. Formerly at The Hairpin. Also now making a newsletter: https://drawinglinks.substack.com