Pacífica
The Argentine duo head to Loco Club on October 8 as part of a nine-date Spanish tour, bringing their sharp-edged indie rock, Strokes obsession and growing reputation for a seriously energetic live show to Valencia.
There is something almost too perfect about the origin story of Pacífica. In 2021, Argentine musicians Inés Adam and Martina Nintzel met online after finding each other through TikTok and discovering that they shared a mutual obsession with The Strokes. Most internet conversations disappear into the digital swamp within a few minutes; this one turned into a band, several records and an international touring career.
Five years later, Pacífica are heading to Valencia, where they will play Loco Club on Thursday, October 8, as part of their nine-date Spanish tour. By then they will already have crossed much of the country, beginning in Valladolid on October 1 and moving through Ourense, Lugo, Sevilla and Granada before arriving in Valencia, with further dates in Oviedo, Madrid and Barcelona following later in the month. The Ourense show has already sold out, which suggests the duo's growing audience is beginning to move considerably faster than the usual indie-band hype cycle.
The Strokes influence is impossible to miss, and Pacífica make no attempt to hide it. Their songs are sung in English and built around the kind of bright, economical guitar work that made the New York band's early records so influential, but there are other ingredients in the mix too, with Phoenix and Daft Punk among the reference points that have helped shape their sound. The result is music that feels deliberately cool without becoming precious, combining the swagger of early-2000s guitar rock with the directness and immediacy of a band that understands exactly what it wants to sound like.
That comparison with The Strokes is useful as an introduction, but it would be lazy to leave it there. Pacífica have already built a catalogue of their own, releasing Not A Cover Band in 2022, Freak Scene in 2023, the live album Freak Scene (Live) in 2024 and In Your Face! in 2025, alongside the Just No Fun EP. Their most recent single, “End Of Beginning,” arrived in February this year, giving the band another piece of new material to carry into a tour that looks increasingly like a significant step forward.
There is also a refreshing lack of hesitation about what Pacífica want to be. They aren't trying to disguise their influences beneath layers of conceptual nonsense, nor are they interested in pretending that guitars have somehow become unfashionable. If anything, they seem to have looked at the current musical landscape, noticed that there is still room for a great riff and a strong chorus, and decided to get on with it.
That attitude is particularly apparent in the band's live reputation. Despite their relatively short history, Pacífica have already developed a reputation for an energetic, vibrant show, and their appearance at the Estéreo Parque cycle in Cádiz earlier this year put them on the same bill as HENGE and Holy Fuck. They are now taking that live experience across Spain, with Valencia landing almost exactly in the middle of the tour.
For Valencia, the setting is a particularly good fit. Loco Club has long occupied that useful position in the city's music ecosystem where emerging international acts can still get close enough to an audience for the room to matter. With its club-sized atmosphere and reputation as one of Valencia's established live venues, it is a far more appropriate destination for Pacífica right now than some anonymous large-scale venue where the band would disappear behind screens, barriers and acres of empty space. This is a band that belongs in a room where the guitars can do the talking.
And there is a good chance that Valencia will be paying particularly close attention. Pacífica are still at that interesting point in a band's trajectory where the audience is expanding but the mythology hasn't yet arrived, which means there is an opportunity to see them before every review starts describing their early Loco Club appearance as some mythical night when everybody in the room supposedly knew they were watching the next big thing.
The reality is more interesting. They're simply a young Argentine band with a handful of records behind them, a strong set of influences, plenty of confidence and a growing appetite for the road. Their story began with two musicians exchanging comments about The Strokes on TikTok; now they're travelling across Spain with a catalogue that is increasingly their own. That is quite a journey for a conversation that could easily have been ignored!
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