«TOLDOMANÍA»: how Fernando Epelde turned an obsession with awnings into an album
Fernando Epelde’s Yo y mis demonios releases TOLDOMANÍA, nine songs where ordinary street awnings become the unlikely heart of restless alternative pop.
Most records reach for grand themes: love, loss, memory. Fernando Epelde has found his by looking up at the awning outside a bar. Under the name Yo y mis demonios, he has released TOLDOMANÍA, a nine-track album inspired by an unlikely obsession with the canopies and awnings that punctuate city streets. What could have remained an amusing private fixation becomes the starting point for a crooked, colourful world of alternative pop, psychedelia and electronica.
Making the ordinary strange again
The project’s description lovingly catalogues green awnings, illuminated shopfront canopies, weathered covers and pristine ones. These are objects so familiar that we rarely look at them. By moving them into the centre of an album concept, Epelde asks the listener to reconsider the streets and routines surrounding them.
An awning also sits on a curious boundary: it divides sunlight and shade, public pavement and private terrace, shelter and advertising. These are possible readings of the imagery rather than interpretations claimed by the artist, but they help explain why the conceit has more depth than its initial comic effect.
Nine tracks between melody and disruption
Released on 16 October 2026 through raso., TOLDOMANÍA contains nine songs, with “Esa voz” and “Misterio” previously introduced as singles. The label describes an album where colourful psychedelia meets jagged indie-electronica and pop melodies. The friction is central: memorable hooks pull one way, while restless rhythmic and electronic details threaten to pull the music off course.
That makes the project more than a nostalgic reconstruction of the early-2000s indie-dance aesthetic. Its interest lies in using those musical resources to frame a highly personal, peculiar idea in the present.
A one-person creative process
Bandcamp’s credits name Fernando Epelde as responsible for the lyrics, music, production, recording, mixing and mastering. Aïda Gómez created the artwork. The unified authorship does not automatically guarantee an interesting record, but it helps explain how the project’s unusual premise can remain intact throughout the creative process.
Listen to the full album on Bandcamp or explore the title track and its credits. At a time when album concepts can feel interchangeable, TOLDOMANÍA poses an appealing question: what happens when an apparently absurd obsession is treated as a serious source of artistic inspiration?