Intergalactic Minibus: "We like LSD and playing overdriven rock"

GironaThe Girona-based group Minibús Intergalàctic is already making a name for itself on 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 forms the basis of 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 formed spontaneously and without pretension in 2021, in the hallways of the University of Girona, where five young people born in the late nineties with common interests clicked. 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. In 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 power of electric guitars and a pop melodic sensibility that makes everything more digestible. And, live, all this energy is multiplied in an overflowing, almost chaotic performance, with a touch of madness. "I think psychedelic is an label that suits us, because we like LSD and it's a very broad umbrella that encompasses 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 pretension, imposture, or concessions. Just as it is. "There is a sincerity in what we do. It's what comes out of us because there's no other way, it's very direct. 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 any idea of changing something because it might 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 truly has little prevalence, but which has also survived through bands like the Banyoles-based Kitsch or Antònia Font, kings of psychedelia, with whom Minibús feel a special synergy. The album also features the invaluable collaboration of producer Martin Youth Glover, a key figure in rock history linked to projects such as The Jesus and Mary Chain, Paul McCartney, or Pink Floyd, who has just rounded off the album's unbridled sound.

Life, a polynomial where the extremes are included

The ten songs do not follow a clear narrative thread or thematic axis, but the lyrics, quite metaphorical and deep, share a foundation about life understood as a scale of grays, full of contradictions and paradoxes. Like a Frankenstein made of apparently disconnected pieces. Hence the title of Polynomial oscillating movement, which refers to a pendulum fluctuating from one extreme to another. And the formula that completes it (y = 1/x) corroborates it.

This is how Ivette Roig explains it: "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, was all more overwhelming, with humor and parody, with almost shot 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 songs on the album express this very well, such as the stripped-down rock of Continuous mobile, Stubborn head, more uninhibited, The bittersweet lesson of the Golden Mas Valley, or Old road, with folk airs and a very complete development.