Album Review: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez - Zapopan

Zapopan is the grimy, ghetto-inspired tenth solo output from Omar Rodriguez-Lopez in 2016.

Electronic bass warps meld with instrumentation on opener Reap The Roots. Lopez croons eerily as the songs blend continuously on this album that ebbs and flows. The drumming features strong grooves fielding the dark tone of Zapopan. What's Left In You is a thumper, touting Lopez's signature guitar leads and swelling to the violent heights of If It Was A Snake It Would Have Bit You, before the tense pandemonium of Hollow Change. Perhaps the most dense and high-flying release from Lopez this year.