Soda Stereo says an unreleased song is on the way

The rest of the members of Soda Stereo look back on the band's storied career and tease a never-before-heard song. In a new interview with Advertising signthe Argentinian rockers have revealed they will soon drop a song they discovered was hidden in the vault.

During the interview, drummer Charly Alberti did not share the name of the song, but said he discovered the track on a tape that included a different version of the first song from their first album, “Por Qué No Puedo Ser del Jet Set?” Alberti shared how the song's lyrics “talk about a child looking up at the sky” and someone who is “very young” and “very naive.” “It was the first thing we did,” he said.

Alberti teased that they were going to do “a little bit of mastering” on the track, but would skip mixing it again. “The sound is very good,” he said. “I think it would miss the point of what it means.”

“It's important that people understand how we started, what the band sounded like at the time,” he added. “Obviously, [we’ll] arrange it to a more current sound, but not much more.”

The interview with Soda Stereo's Alberti and Zeta Bosio coincides with the 40th anniversary of the band's self-titled debut album, released in 1984. The duo reflected on their heyday and how their music appealed to young people who were 'apathetic' to Latin music and more to acts like U2, the Cure and the Police. (The group's frontman, Gustavo Cerati, died in 2014 at age 55.)

“On the songs, he was very specific — because, really, the songs were going to come out of the three of us together,” Alberti said. Advertising sign. “We composed and made song bases all the time, we rehearsed all week, including Saturdays and Sundays, and the song bases came from those rehearsals. And Gustavo would add the melody and lyrics to those bases to finish the songs.”

Last year, the band was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Latin Recording Academy. The band disbanded in 1997 after seven albums and several tours. Rolling rock ranked Soda Stereo's Canción Animaltheir fifth album, as the 16th best Latin American rock album of all time, while Cerati's solo LP Bocanada landed in second place.