Perotá Chingó

Every summer, thousands of Argentinian 20-something urbanites hit the road in order to discover themselves in Patagonia, Salta, or the coast. In fact anywhere will do, so long as there's an acoustic guitar, a spliff or two and someone who can braid hair. Perotá Chingó are a four-piece, led by Julia Ortíz and Dolores Aguirre, that provide a sunny, soulful soundtrack to this experience. Their debut is a Manu Chao-influenced road trip of an album – fingerpicking guitar solos and round-the-campfire singalongs – and is very likeable. The lead female voices are rich and sassy, slipping easily between a bossa nova-style sultriness to a whooping vivacity more typical of Andean music.

Perotá Chingó are very much of their generation. ‘Rie Chinito’ was an online hit, with a video shot in Cabo Polonio, a cool, hippyish beach resort in Uruguay. ‘La Complicidad/Jah Rastafari’, switches to Marley-accented English; reggae is quite possibly the most popular single genre in white South America. But there's humour and natural talent too and the songs shimmer when the backing musicians wrap their playing around the pair's sweet harmonies. Definitely one to pack on your summer jaunt to South America – or to warm up a grey northern winter.