“As vaguely post-rock bands go, Tristeza are perhaps the most perfectly rated. The San Diego act emerged from the Southern California hardcore scene nine years ago, and has established an entirely indifferent reputation for exactly three things: lineage (GoGoGo Airheart, Crimson Curse, the Locust), family tree (co-founder Jimmy LaValle quit in 2003 to devote time to his more renowned Album Leaf pro”
