What makes Los de Abajo even more appealing, though, is the personal nature of their songwriting, churning out one moving vocal after another. The human condition is captured as individual moments of heartbreak, loneliness, and even madness, but the hopeful moments shine all the brighter for it. On "That Place Does Exist," the singers' call-and-response vocals take on a Pentecostal ecstasy as the song's utopian vision takes shape. The norteña/ska of "Go On, Rise Up" is so frenzied, it's giddy and, if you take its advice, even liberating. Remember when those words used to describe punk?