Ignorantes – No Hemos Inventado Nada Ni Nos Interesa Hacerlo

If you ask any writer about music, everyone has their own bias towards releases from certain labels, and I think Philly’s General Speech label and fanzine is one of those that doesn’t get enough love for the really important work they do. The label’s first release back in 2012 was The Curtain Of An Intense Attack EP by the Japanese band Confront, which is one of my less-obvious Japanese hardcore punk favorites. By this point in 2026, the label has more than 50 and close to 60 releases, and while the highlights are still all those Japanese bands and reissues of hard-to-find records, there have also been great international ones, like Croatia’s Indikator B and bands from South America like Ignorantes.

Ignorantes started in the 2010s in Concepción, Chile, and while their records don’t all sound the same stylistically, they’ve always put out really raw recordings with simplistic artwork and a nihilistic attitude. General Speech has already released Ignorantes demos and 7-inches before, and even interviewed the band for General Speech fanzine #10, which unfortunately I don’t own and haven’t read yet.

No Hemos Inventado Nada Ni Nos Interesa Hacerlo was originally recorded in Chile in 2021, but never distributed until this LP in 2026. It contains eight tracks of Ignorantes’ rawest, most hateful and nihilistic tunes, drawing from decades of punk and the noisier side of hardcore. The title translates to “We have invented nothing, and are not interested in doing so,” so don’t expect some great musicianship here, but a band that, if you hadn’t read a single review about them, you wouldn’t know if it comes from the 2020s or the 1980s.

Ignorantes don’t play as fast as they can, with most tracks going in the mid-tempo “tupa-tupa” punk beat, yet they’ve got this abrasive, lo-fi sound of bands like UK’s Chaotic Dischord, Chaos UK, and Disorder, or Japanese legends like Confuse, Gai, and The Swankys. And of course, there’s the ’90s Chilean punk worship with bands like Ocho Bolas, Anarkia, CNI, and Caos. One of the tracks on this record, “Libertad Condicionada,” is actually a cover of the ’90s band BBS Paranoicos.

I could totally imagine Ignorantes songs on some of those classic international MRR compilations back in the ’80s, or some Latin American tape comp in the early ’90s. This record is a perfect mix of raspy Latinx punk vocals, abrasive noise-laden guitars, and 1-2-1-2 punk drumming with non-stop energy, the kind of thing I would choose any day over some overproduced modern crap. And really, I would expect nothing less from punks of this nature.