Bomba Estéreo To Release New Album Elegancia Tropical Due Out November 6th. by Tom Pryor

After conquering the world in 2009 with their international debut Blow Up Colombian electro-cumbia collective Bomba Estéreo are back this November with a brand new album on the label that first launched them.

Elegancia Tropical will be due out on Polen records on November 6th, the same Bogota-based label that released the band's first album, Vol. 1 back in 2006. After their breakthrough success with the release of Blow Up on the L.A.-based Nacional label, Bomba Estéreo toured the world and popped up at just about every major festival from Coachella to Roskilde, before returning home to record their newest album.

Elegancia Tropical reunites the core duo of singer Liliana "Li" Saumet, bassist and mastermind Simón Mejía with Kike Egurrola on drums and Julián Salazar on guitar for a beachside romp through everything from cumbia to chicha to dancehall. It promises to be a scorcher.

Full press release reprinted below:

Bomba Estereo is back with Elegancia Tropical

"It's all about the happiness," Bomba Estéreo's incandescent vocalist Liliana Saumet likes to exclaim. And the cumbia-powered, electro-shimmering party now continues on Elegancia Tropical (Polen Records; November 6, 2012), the long-expected follow-up from Bogota's hottest band, named for the bad-ass sound systems that are the heart of local parties.

Recorded beachside, Elegancia Tropical takes a deeper dive into Colombia's Afro-Latin roots and beats, without losing the edgy drive and good times that propelled Bomba Estéreo up charts and onto hip festival stages from Coachella to Bonnaroo. Building tracks from the Afro-Colombia beat up, Bomba Estéreo organically transforms the traditional into the fresh, jumping from chicha and champeta to dancehall vibes.

With the prefect balance of day-glo electronics and earthy cumbia rumbles, the band keeps it bold and bright, rocking club-friendly but clever party anthem ("Pure Love"), grabbing groundbreaking Brazilian MC BNegao for a hard-hitting track ("Rocas"), and swaying with sweet Afro-Caribbean funk (" El Alma y El Cuerpo").