The Mezcaltones drip with Tex-Mex authenticity. They have a look, the 60’s twang, the classic blend of country cool and seductive surf sounds, they have the songs, and they have four albums (including this one) that make you feel as if you are in a small cantina on the southern border, or are wandering through a Tarantino movie. So come it is Sydney rather than somewhere like El Paso that they call home?
Then again, who cares where they come from? All that matter is the great music that they make. Agavé Soirée wanders between the foot on the monitor rock ‘n’ roll of Wouldn’t Last A Day to the country energy of I Wanna Do It With You and from the punked-up 60’s Mararchi Surf sound of Seven Spanish Angels to the balladic yet powerful tones of News For You.
It’s a superb album and no mistake, one that seems as out of place sonically in the modern era as they seem to be geographically. But, as we all know, it is music found in unexpected places, so wonderfully (and purposefully) out of step with fads and fashion, which is the only music worth listening to. Agavé Soirée is so wrong that it is so right!