"Mateo solo bien se lame," is a record that requires many superlatives in order to do it justice: from its first moments, the music is lilting, poetic, intimate, in turns life-affirming and melancholic, with pulsating percussion backed by unheard-of guitar chords and tunings (perhaps the reason for the frequent Caetano Veloso and Nick Drake comparisons); it is an album that sounds-simply put-honest. The record was released at the end of '72 in both Argentina and Uruguay, and was received from that first moment as a classic in those countries, a position it still occupies today. Special slip-case edition comes with an oversize 48-page full-blown booklet packed with photos, text, and lyrics.