With their second album, este mundo (this world), Rupa & the April Fishes hold up a carnival mirror to life and present a warped, humorous, and occasionally disquieting reflection. Sequestered beneath Rupa's infectious and captivating melodies are thought-provoking themes that address life, love, art, death, and the real and artificial divisions that keep us apart. The San Francisco-based musical agitators are specialists in crossing borders and building bridges, and on este mundo, they effortlessly blur the boundaries of genre and geography to create a sound Time Out has called "global agit-pop."

Rupa & the April Fishes performed at Amoeba San Francisco on October 28, 2009.