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Skyrocket Promotions are proud to announce a headline show for the amazing ‘Borla’
Borla:
Three friends who met in 2023 at the Public University of Navarra, studying for a master’s degree that seemed to be the shortest route to their dream of job stability. Now that they have completed their master’s degrees, their employment situation remains the same, but at least it helped them to set up Borla.
The project was born out of their desire to try playing something together, mixing each of their influences. Borla‘s music could be defined as intimate and precious pop, without much fuss or pretension but with punch: a little post-punk here, some jangle pop there, combined with influences from Basque 80s pop, emo and even oi. Some people say it sounds like Bloc Party, La Culpa, Ataque de Caspa or Itoiz, among others.
In January 2024, they released their demo on Bandcamp, which they edited on cassette with Polze de la Mort, recorded by Beñat Malakias in their rehearsal studio in September 2023, before their first concert. Despite its eminently DIY sound and production, the cassette received good reviews, appearing in Mondo Sonoro.
Since then, Borla has played around 70 concerts throughout the Basque Country, France or Spain, while also finding time to record their first LP, Kordoba bidea, at Luze Studio, which was released in May 2024 in digital and vinyl formats by the Valencian label Flexidiscos. Borla presents itself as a very promising and interesting emerging act on the already prolific Basque music scene.
