Los Bitchos open the door to collaborators on new album and 2027 tour
Los Bitchos have released their third full-length album, Los Bitchos & Friends Vol 1, bringing guest vocalists and collaborators into the instrumental trio’s psychedelic, groove-led world for the first time.
Out now via GREAT! Records in association with !K7 Music, the nine-track record expands on the band’s cross-pollination of cumbia, rock, Turkish psychedelia and Latin American rhythms. It also arrives alongside a new visualiser for focus track Walk In Salem, a percussion-heavy cut built around wailing guitar lines, vocal calls and an insistent rhythmic pulse.
A voice as another instrument
While the record features guests including Kit Sebastian, Chicha Libre, Ambrose Kenny-Smith, Sinkane and Adrian Quesada, Los Bitchos have approached the additions less as conventional guest spots and more as further textures within their arrangements.
“It’s been interesting to bring forward the use of voice as a texture rather than saying, ‘This song is about my boyfriend, or my mum, or despair, or whatever it is people write about’,” guitarist Serra Petale says. “It’s derived from a very Elizabeth Fraser from Cocteau Twins vibe, where she’s like: I don’t even mind what I’m singing, it’s how I’m singing it and that’s what matters.”
The new album follows recent releases El Pençe, featuring Kit Sebastian, Conexiones with Chicha Libre, Holding Cell featuring Kenny-Smith of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, and Hang Up (Pt 2), which pairs Sinkane with Quesada.
The full track listing
Los Bitchos & Friends Vol 1 runs across nine tracks, with the collaborative cuts sitting alongside instrumental pieces including Cross, Forest and Sunset.
- Hang Up (Pt 2) (with Adrian Quesada and Sinkane)
- El Pençe (with Kit Sebastian)
- Walk In Salem
- Holding Cell (with Ambrose Kenny-Smith)
- Cross
- Forest
- Sunset
- Conexiones (with Chicha Libre)
- Next Selection (Prelude)
KOKO headline show among 2027 dates
The band will take the new material on the road in early 2027, beginning with UK and Ireland dates before moving through Europe. The run includes a headline show at London’s KOKO on 5 February.
- 29 January — Birmingham, UK — The Castle & Falcon
- 30 January — Manchester, UK — Band on the Wall
- 1 February — Dublin, IE — Opium Live
- 2 February — Glasgow, UK — Saint Luke’s
- 4 February — Bristol, UK — Bristol Beacon (The Lantern Hall)
- 5 February — London, UK — KOKO
- 11 February — Paris, FR — Le Trabendo
- 12 February — Antwerp, BE — Trix
- 13 February — Utrecht, NL — TivoliVredenburg (Footprints Festival)
- 15 February — Copenhagen, DK — Pumpehuset
- 16 February — Gothenburg, SE — Pustervik
- 17 February — Stockholm, SE — Slaktkyrkan
- 19 February — Berlin, DE — Gretchen
- 20 February — Prague, CZ — Futurum Music Bar
- 21 February — Vienna, AT — Flex
- 23 February — Munich, DE — Strom
- 24 February — Lausanne, CH — Les Docks
- 26 February — Lyon, FR — L’Épicerie Moderne
- 27 February — Dijon, FR — La Vapeur
- 28 February — Lille, FR — L’Aéronef
