LECHUZA contains a hidden track following "El Borracho."
Fenix Tx: William Salazar (vocals, guitar); Damon De La Paz (guitar, drums, background vocals); James Love (guitar); Adam Lewis (bass, background vocals).
Additional personnel: Dennis Hill (guitar, background vocals); Roddy Bottum (keyboards).
Recorded at Ocean Studios, Burbank, California, Entourage and Track Record Studios, North Hollywood, California and Village Recorders, Los Angeles, California.
On Fenix TX's second outing, the quartet continues to pursue the brash pop-punk sound that initially brought them widespread recognition. You've got to love a group that opens its album with a completely unironic song called "Pheobe Cates," an ode to the actress best known for her role in FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH. Like Green Day and many of the bands who sprang up in that groundbreaking trio's wake, Fenix TX mixes pop-schooled harmonies and melodies with a surefire guitar-and-drums attack whose lineage may be drawn from the Ramones through the Buzzcocks to the aforementioned Greenies without any degeneration of effect. Sure, they're very much of they're era; If LECHUZA came out in 1965, Fenix TX would probably be proponents of the British Invasion sound, and they'd be no less infectious and energetic than they are on this album.
