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Lolabúm is an ecuadorian rock band created in Quito in mid-2014. It's conformed by singer and multi-instrumentalist Pedro Bonfim, guitarist Joaquín Prado, bass player Martín Erazo, and drummer José Miguel Fabre. The band appeared within the ecuadorian music escene in 2015 with numerous concerts throughout different cities in Ecuador. In 2016 they released their first studio album El Cielo which explored a rock and alternative rock sound with a similar production of lo-fi. The band dropped their second studio album on July 2018, Tristes Trópicos, with a deeper lyricism and diverse sounds taking elements of diferent genres such as reggaeton, latin music and hip-hop. The band is part of the new wave of ecuadorian artits which has developed during the 2010's decade.

Origin (2014-2015)
Lolabúm was the creation of Pedro Bonfim, singer and guitarist of Quito, inspired by the musical enviorenment which he lived through because of his parents closeness with music. During its beginnings, the band's lineup was chaning, with members such as Michaela Garay on the drumbs and Estevan Ricaurte on the guitar dropping out of the band because of externals factors. The band started its career releasing singles like Que asco de Sábado and Animales mal disecados, both songs with tremendous energy had some welcome within the ecuadorian music escene. It was during this time they had its first presentations such as Ibarra's La Cochera Festival and being the opening act of colombian band Monsieur Periné.

El Cielo (2016-2017)
On February 4th, 2016, the band released its debut album which contains elements of noise rock, punk, and alternative rock. The sound is similar to indie bands of the 2000s like The Strokes and Arctic Monkeys. The order of the record only responded to the way in which the band composed its repertoire of songs for its concerts. In this album, you can find songs such as Ventanas and Que asco de sábado which talk about love mixed with elements of ecuadorian identity. Through this release, the band started gaining more traction, especially in the inner circles of other ecuadorian bands like La Máquina Camaleón. In 2017, they made collaboration with other artists including Les Petit Bâtards.

Tristes Trópicos (2018-2019)
On July 13th of 2018, the band dropped its sophomore album Tristes Trópicos, a name inspired by a book by Claude Levi Strauss which he documents his trips and anthropological work, what's more of permeate philosophical reflections and ideas that link many academic disciplines, such as sociology, geology, music, history, and literature. This album was produced under the PoliMusic label and was supported by many personalities of indie latin music like Felipe Lizarzaburu y Lucca Bocci. With this record, the band reached a new level of popularity, reaching quickly the top 50 most listened albums in Ecuador. In addition to this, it was well received by ecuadorian critics, remarking on their unique sound and the way they deal with different topics like latin identity. For the promotion of this album, the band released music videos for many of the songs that are part of the record, El Ecuador, Sin Sol, Lágrima e Insistencia. The band's popularity allowed them to make several tours around Ecuador including their participation in the Funkafest festival and even having a tour in Colombia which was their first tour in a foreign country.

Verte Antes De Fin De Año y O Clarividencia (2020-presente)
After the success of Tristes Trópicos, the band's focus was the composition and production of a series of two new albums. These records were started to compose in December of 2018 with a personal exploration of Pedro Bonfim because of a depressive episode he went through. However, during 2019 and 2020 the project was changing due to the national and worldwide crises which the vocalist lived through. The ecuadorian political crisis that occurred in October of 2019 because of the rising prices of gas and the coronavirus pandemic made Bonfim rethink the meaning and theme of his new projects, he even deleted and rewrote some songs that were already recorded. The quarantine also meant a huge change to the production style of both albums, this move made the band take a close-up to lo-fi music than Tristes Trópicos. According to Bonfim, the result of all of this made the band take the place of producers instead of singers for this new era.

On May 26th of 2020, the band made a statement through social media announcing the release of two albums for that year. The first one, Verte Antes de Fin de Año, was planned for the 31st of July, and the second one, O Clarividencia, with a release date of the 11th of September, which had been proposed for the 9th of October because of a dream that Pedro Bonfim had. On June 26 of that same year, the band dropped its first single of these two projects named Penitas alongside its music video, directed by lead singer Pedro Bonfim. In this same one, it's been shown many religious symbols are related to Quito next strange sequences starring some characters wearing masks. On July 13, they announced through their social networks the release of the single Cuando Quieres Jugar Conmigo featuring the singer from Cuenca, Neoma. It was published 11 days after that, on July 24th, through Neoma's YouTube channel and the Spotify account of both artists. The first album of this new era was released on the 31st of July, Verte Antes de Fin de Año, through a live premiere on YouTube with Bonfim there recommending the audience to listen to the album in a complete way in a row at least once.

Studio albums

 * El Cielo (2016)
 * Tristes Trópicos (2018)
 * Verte Antes De Fin De Año (2020)
 * O Clarividencia (2020)

Singles

 * Penitas (2020)
 * Cuando Quieres Jugar Conmigo (2020) feat. Neoma