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    "comment": "“Ezezez” works as both song and self-definition, a title track that distills the band’s identity into something wiry, self-contained, and forceful. EZEZEZ are a Basque band from Bilbao formed by Unai Madariaga, Eneko Ajangiz, Álvaro Olaetxea, and Mikel Irigoyen, and their profile is marked by an unusually complete DIY ethic: writing, recording, mixing, mastering, visuals, and presentation all handled within the project itself. That total approach matters when listening to “Ezezez,” because the song feels less like an isolated track than like an extension of a whole aesthetic world. The band’s materials emphasize a unique and forceful sound-image language, and this song plays like a thesis statement for that ambition.\nThere is a tautness to the track that suggests post-punk, noisy indie rock, and underground experimental pop without settling obediently into any one of those categories. The self-titled framing gives it a declarative quality, as if the band were spelling its own name into being through repetition, distortion, and groove. Because their work is so bound up with self-construction, “Ezezez” carries an added sense of authorship. It sounds handmade in the strongest sense: not rough for the sake of posture, but deliberate in every contour. The result is music with a hard edge and a clear point of view, the sound of a band making itself legible on its own terms.\nListen: https://open.spotify.com/track/2SI6t3yfaowDQrHPglxhvy",
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