Rock music has never really gone anywhere. It just keeps finding new people willing to carry it forward, honestly. Mondrian, the project of Buenos Aires composer and producer Matias Jimenez, is one of those people. His debut EP “2020–2025” collects five tracks built over half a decade of work, and the result is something that demands your full attention and pays it back generously. The record pulls from the hypnotic, slow-burning energy of classic Krautrock while staying connected to the rawness of modern electric guitar music. Jimenez wears those influences without letting them wear him. Every guitar line, every structural choice across these five tracks feels deliberate, like someone who spent years thinking about what he actually wanted to say before saying it.
“A1” opens the EP with overdriven guitar parts that get chopped up, layered, and rebuilt before making a sharp detour into a Baroque-style organ passage, then pushing hard toward a garage-rock finale. It’s a lot of ground to cover in one song, and it works. “B1” follows with lead guitar phrasing that calls back to the virtuoso playing of the 1980s, confident and melodically rich without tipping into nostalgia. The fact that “2020–2025” is entirely the work of one person matters. Jimenez writes, records, and produces on his own, and that singularity comes through clearly. “C1” feels open and almost weightless, like something recorded with wide skies in mind. “D1” goes somewhere moodier and more interior, and both tracks land precisely because no outside hand softened or redirected the vision behind them.
Personally, this is the kind of debut that makes you want to go back immediately after the first listen, not because you missed something, but because you want to feel it again from the top. That’s not a small thing. “E1” closes the EP with sparse, fuzzed-out rhythm guitar and melodies that dissolve quietly rather than wrap things up neatly. By the time it ends, you’ve likely lost track of how long you’ve been sitting with it. That’s the mark of music that actually does its job.
If you haven’t come across Mondrian yet, follow Matias Jimenez on Instagram at @mondrian104 and on Facebook at mondrian. 104, and pay attention to whatever comes next. “2020–2025” is the kind of record that makes following worthwhile. Add it to your playlist and give it room to breathe, not as something on in the background, but as something you actually sit with. It earns that listening every time, and the more you return to it, the more you’ll find it holding up. Rock music with this much patience and this much conviction doesn’t come around as often as it should, and when it does, it deserves to find its audience.
