As if they’d suddenly appeared out of nowhere, Alcalá Norte released their debut album in the spring of 2024, propelled by the unexpected success of La Vida Cañón, a transgenerational rock anthem the sort that aren’t made anymore. The band’s emergence took everyone by surprise, although in fact they had been playing since 2019 with several line-up changes. A journey on the fringes that led them to a debut post-punk album that seemed obsessed with escaping post-punk – with escaping from everything.

That escape has ultimately led Alcalá Norte to a fascinating crossroads where Britpop, New Romantic, Madrid’s La Movida and the codes of the deep web meet. Although the sum of all this produces a brilliantly unique aesthetic, within the quintet one can see that intangible, hard-to-define quality that we’ve also seen in other bands who have defined their moment and their place right there at street level, such as Television Personalities, Subway Sect, Eskorbuto, Mission of Burma, Tarántula and Carolina Durante.

The shadow of their second album has been on the horizon for some time, like the monolith that serves as the band’s logo, but the wait is finally over: Dejémoslo como estaba, the most eagerly awaited Spanish rock album of 2026, is finally here. Alcalá Norte will present it on 20th March at the Sant Jordi Club in Barcelona in what will be the biggest concert of their career in the city to date.