The multi-platinum selling Los Lobos return with Tin Can Trust, a typically unique and brilliantly accomplished album.

The title cut on Tin Can Trust, Los Lobos' 14th studio album, collects the thoughts of a guy trying to make ends meet collecting cans and bottles, whose wardrobe consists of "a dime store shirt/and two bucks for a good pair," and it's a song that carries more weight than usual in a time where seemingly everyone is having trouble

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Los Lobos (pronounced, Spanish for "the Wolves") is an American rock band from East Los Angeles, California, United States. Their music is influenced by rock and roll, Tex-Mex, country, zydeco, folk, R&B, blues, brown-eyed soul, and traditional music such as cumbia, boleros and norteños. The band gained international stardom in 1987, when their cover version of Ritchie Valens' "La Bamba" topped the charts in the . the UK and several other countries

Los Lobos recorded a bunch of Mexican folk songs for their 1978 debut LP, titling the collection Just Another Band From East LA. During the ensuing third of a century, singer/guitarists David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas, drummer/guitarist Louie Perez and bassist Conrad Lozano – joined in the early ’80s by Philadelphia-born sax player and producer Steve Berlin – have put the lie to that description, cementing their status as one of America’s most reliably adventurous bands. For Tin Can Trust, the band holed up in a funky studio in an East LA neighbourhood not far from where the four core bandmembers grew up, and built the album from scratch, having arrived without any completed songs or any particular course to pursue. Despite the lack of direction going in, the resulting LP is as sonically coherent and thematically unified as anything they’re done.

2010: the Chicanos are so associated with La Bamba; who remembers how influential they once were? Now, following an album of Disney covers, they turn to the American economy’s disintegration from the perspective of those East LA wolves whose survival the band have described in song for more than 25 years. Despite the Tex-Mex swing of Burn it Down, this is not a party album - the ghost of Tom Joad hangs over the ballads Jupiter on the Moon, All My Bridges Burning and the title track.

There’s a groove that Los Lobos keeps finding on Tin Can Trust that’s kind of slow and that seems like the ultimate cruising music, perfect to listen to if you’re driving down a street as inviting as the one described in On Main Street. But the scenery isn’t always so pleasant. What fuels the desperation of Burn it Down and All My Bridges Burning remains vague but real, the title track and West . Fadeaway bring money problems into the mix, and there are lonely hearts in both English and Spanish.

Los Lobos' latest album Tin Can Trust is their latest to combine the sounds of rock and roll, country music and traditional Mexican and Spanish tunes. courtesy of the artist. Los Lobos' latest album Tin Can Trust is their latest to combine the sounds of rock and roll, country music and traditional Mexican and Spanish tunes. Los Lobos save its most audacious song for the end of this album. Called "27 Spanishes," songwriters David Hidalgo and Louie Perez describe it as an attempt to tell "the entire tale of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, blow by blow. I'm staggered to hear that they come awfully close to achieving just that, encased in a quiet, lean, mean blues epic. There isn't a false note on Tin Can Trust.

For many people in Britain their abiding memory of LA Chicano outfit Los Lobos will be an effervescent cover version of Ricky Valen's classic 'La Bamba', released way back in 1987. As unconventional as it is, I can guarantee that the unprejudiced ear is still highly likely to find something to enjoy on Tin Can Trust.