'I Am Cinco' is an empowering statement that you exist as the sum of all parts of your past. David Butler elaborates, “We have widely different emotions. The way we live our lives is the way we created ‘I Am Cinco.’ This is a picture of humanity and a collection of our experiences.”
Formulated in the band’s hometown of Austin, TX, I Am Cinco was eventually completed on a creative escape to Mexico City. “We’ve been to multiple countries and had 10 different sessions to write and record these 26 songs. It’s an epic inspired by some of the great old-school double LPs like The Wall or Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness. We’re not just here to check a box; we’re here to be prolific. It puts our creativity out there in a way no other album has. It’s MISSIO,” MISSIO elaborates.
Since 2015, MISSIO released Loner [2017], The Darker the Weather // The Better the Man [2019], Can You Feel The Sun [2020], and VILLAIN [2022]. Their catalog has notably resonated with the Gold-certified 'Everybody Gets High' and staples, including 'Twisted', 'Bottom of the Deep Blue See', 'Sing To Me', and 'I See You'. Between selling out shows, they appeared at festivals a la ACL and Lollapalooza and incited praise from Billboard, Rolling Stone, New Noise, and Substream.
I Am Cinco Tracklisting
1. I Am Sad and I Can’t Speak
2. Read Your Mind
3. I Don’t Like It When You’re Lonely
4. What Can You Say
5. RingTing
6. Monsters (Inside of Us)
7. Good Vibrations
8. Easy
9. Thang Thang
10. Big Stacks
11. Papi Chulo
12. I’m Coming Home
13. Not My Fault
14. Heart Made of Dynamite
15. Goodbye to the Old Me
16. Making Me Nervous
17. Run Away
18. Rage
19. Fuck It
20. Aztec Death Whistle
21. This World Is Better When It’s Sick
22. Go Fuck Yourself
23. Fall into a Blackhole
24. The Higher You Climb
25. Pulled Down Low
26. Time
