Peruvian artist Caye Castagnetto (they/them) has released the official music video for “Slippery Snakes.” Influenced by a life split between Lima, London, and Twentynine Palms, Peru-born Caye Castagnetto’s Leap Second is an intriguingly personal and hard to classify debut album. Castagnetto’s debut LP Leap Second is out January 22nd on Castle Face Records.

The album is a thick collage of samples Caye recorded with different artists and musicians, including Beatrice Dillon and the late Aileen Bryant, that spans 5 years in the making. There is something in Leap Second that tracks the speed of bodies, how they approach and retreat. The 10 tracks are speedy and languid, thick ruffles, and dirges. In parts it feels like you’ve stumbled upon a forgotten incredible 70’s folk record but that feeling gets broken quickly by clever sleights of hand. Caye’s balladry is angular, time is elastic. Each song is a fresh cape. How dandies really mean it, so masc that it’s fay, how the only moment is this one and it’s just passed, etcetera.

“While it doesn’t really sound like anything else, there are moments that feel like a Latin flavored Nico, that’s edging its way towards some of the outings of the Sun City Girls. In my opinion it checks all the boxes, by checking none of them.” – Bjorn Copeland, Black Dice

“A truly interesting conglomeration of loose inspirations and conjurings. A hard to decipher sound all together which makes it worth every moment, A sprinkling of Catherine Ribeiro, Dr. John, Terje Rypdal & Nico. Far out sun-soaked odysseys & moon dappled woodland night creepers..” – John Dwyer

M. Caye Castagnetto
Leap Second
Tracklist
Castle Face Records

01. I Invented Disco
02. Stopping You
03. Slippery Snakes
04. Mi Mentira
05. All Points North
06. Amor Cabra
07. Hands On The Business
08. Until
09. Street Trees, Evening Green
10. Chase Water, Blue Moon