Intergalactic Minibus: "We like LSD and making overdrive rock"
The band from Girona presents the album 'Polynomial Oscillating Motion y=1/x', which reaffirms them as one of the most unique and daring groups on the Catalan scene
GironaThe Girona-based group Minibús Intergalàctic is already making a name for itself in the Catalan music scene. After a very solid debut album, they now present their second record, Moviment oscil·lant polinòmic y=1/x (Neu!, 2026),which lays the foundations for the project and promises to be one of the musical discoveries of the year. The presentation tour will begin on April 24 in Girona and will continue in Barcelona (May 9), Reus (May 22), and Lleida (May 30).
The band was formed spontaneously and without pretenses in 2021, in the hallways of the Universitat de Girona, where five young people born in the late nineties with common interests hit it off. They are Edu Lazo (drums), Santi Fonfría (guitar and vocals), Ivette Roig (bass), and Aram Figueras (guitar), all from Girona or its surroundings, and Ícar Iranzo (organ, synthesizers, and vocals), from Terres de l'Ebre, who came to the city to do his medical residency.
Since then, they have consolidated their own powerful style, with psychedelic roots and a sixties feel. On this second work, their sound delves into darker territories, with incursions into space rock, shoegaze, post-punk, and the noisy indie pop of the late eighties. The result is a tense balance between the impact of electric guitars and melodic pop sensibility that makes everything more digestible. And, live, all this energy multiplies into an overflowing, almost chaotic performance, with a touch of madness. "I think psychedelic is a label that suits us well, because we like LSD and it's a very broad umbrella that covers many things. In the end, it's nothing more than rock gone wild: doing everything strange and weird", explains Santi Fonfría.
Certainly, everything surrounding Minibús Intergalàctic is strange and eccentric, but also honest and sincere. Without pretenses, affectations, or concessions. Just as it comes out. "There's a sincerity in what we do. It's what comes out because there's no other way, it's a very direct thing. If the album turned out this way, it's because it's what we like and what we listen to. At no point was there the idea of changing something because maybe it would sound better on the radio," admits Aram Figueras.
From The Smiths to Antònia Font
In their musical proposal, a clearly Anglo-Saxon imaginary resonates, with references such as The Smiths, Spacemen 3, Spectrum, Oasis, and Spiritualized. A background that in the Catalan sphere really has little prevalence, but which has also survived through bands like Banyoles' Kitsch or Antònia Font, kings of psychedelia, with whom Minibús feel a special connection. The album also features the invaluable collaboration of producer Martin Youth Glover, a key figure in rock history linked to projects like The Jesus and Mary Chain, Paul McCartney, or Pink Floyd, who has just rounded off the album's unleashed sound.
Life, a polynomial where the extremes are included
The ten tracks do not follow a clear narrative thread or thematic axis, but the lyrics, quite metaphorical and profound, share a substratum about life understood as a grayscale, full of contradictions and paradoxes. Like a Frankenstein made of apparently disconnected pieces. From here comes the title of Polynomial oscillating movement, which refers to a pendulum fluctuating from one end to the other. And the formula that completes it (y = 1/x) corroborates it.
Ivette Roig develops it thus: "Although it may be a bit cryptic, polynomial oscillating movement is something that moves from one extreme to another. The formula expresses what is inversely proportional, one thing with respect to the other, but at the same time, when X is 1 and Y is also 1, then they meet".
And if the first album, Meditations from Mercurial Mirages, all of it was more uninhibited, with humor and parody, with almost plagiarized echoes of Pau Riba and Jaume Sisa, the second work, with this almost existentialist theme, opts for a darker and more everyday register. Disillusionment and lucidity coexist, existential emptiness, paralysis, direction, and the paradox of wanting to live and not knowing how to do it. Some of the most successful tracks on the album express this very well, such as the naked rock of Continuous mobile, Throne Head, more uninhibited, The bittersweet lesson of the Golden Mas Valley, or Old Road, with folk airs and a very complete development.