Solo quiero gastar
mi tiempo contigo
Regálame tu tiempo
escaparemos de este mundo
Obskuros, a post-punk trio from Northeast Los Angeles, makes music that seems to arrive like a half-remembered dream, as though it had been playing somewhere behind a wall long before you stepped into the room bathed in wistful romance. What began as Erick Lobo’s solo project has, with the addition of Yanely Milanes and Chris Lemus, become something fuller and more finely balanced: a band with a gift for turning inward feeling into shared atmosphere.
Their song Tu Tiempo moves with that particular grace, finding a point where dreampop drift, darkwave romance, and post-punk tension can coexist without jostling one another for prominence. The group’s Spanish-language delivery softens and blurs at the edges, threading themselves through the haze of synth and guitar in a way that deepens the song’s sense of suspended emotion. Restraint can be more persuasive than display, so rather than pushing toward catharsis, Tu Tiempo lingers in a state of longing, allowing its feeling to gather slowly until the whole track seems lit from within.
The arrangement is rich without becoming cluttered. Saturated guitars glow at the periphery, atmospheric synths hover like weather, and the rhythm section keeps the song moving with a patient, nocturnal pulse. Above it all, the harmonies are especially lovely: close, intimate, and slightly blurred, as if sung from two sides of the same dream. The mood is closer to wistfulness touched by wonder, a recognition that desire can be both ache and shelter at once.
Tu Tiempo is built around a simple but resonant impulse: the wish to spend one’s time entirely in the company of another person, and in doing so to escape the blunt weight of the ordinary world. Time, in the song, is not merely a measure but an offering, something that can be given, shared, and transformed. That idea gives the track its emotional core. The yearning is unmistakable, yet so is the hope.
The video extends the song’s atmosphere with a quietly uncanny charm. Obskuros performs in the subway as if busking in another dimension, suspended between the familiar grit of public transit and something more spectral, more private. It is a striking image for a band whose music occupies a similar threshold: grounded in the physical textures of post-punk, but always reaching toward somewhere more elusive. On Tu Tiempo, Obskuros makes longing feel almost luminous.
Watch Tu Tiempo below:
Obskuros’ new album, La Puerta, is out now, arriving like a starlit confession pressed into song and opening onto a place where the band’s wistful longing and dreamy ache can fully bloom.
Across 13 tracks, the trio refines its momentum, emotional pull, and Spanish-language yearning into something focused and cohesive, with Yanely Milanes and Erick H. Miranda sharing vocal duties to deepen the record’s emotional range. On tracks like the opener “Paralysis,” Erick’s vocals arrive in a dreampop-caliber deluge of reverb, giving the song a submerged, yearning pull carried forward by swift post-punk bass and chiming guitar. Elsewhere, songs like “Beso Fatal,” with Yanely on vocals, drift in with a spellbound, otherworldly grace, gliding over angular guitar bounce and synth churn, while English-language tracks such as “Drive,” once again featuring Erick on vocals, bring those same textures into closer conversation while still retaining the timbre of Spanish romance. For all its shifts in voice and language, La Puerta remains remarkably unified, holding fast to its ache, atmosphere, and sense of escape with quiet assurance.
Listen below and order the album here.
Obskuros will also be promoting La Puerta live this spring and summer, with live dates scheduled at Sangriento in Mexico City on April 11th, Los Angeles’ El Rey Theatre on May 15th, and Soda Bar in San Diego on June 14th.
Catch Obskuros live:
- 11 April – Sangriento, Mexico City
- 15 May – El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles
- 14 June – Soda Bar, San Diego
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