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El Presidente is the self-entitled debut album from Scottish band El Presidente, released on 24th October 2005. The album was also released on 8th of February in Japan with two extra tracks, a new recording called "Lies" and a cover of Prince's "Raspberry Beret", which was also included as a B-side to "Turn This Thing Around"). In total four singles have been released from the album.

The current line up of El Presidente is not actually featured on the album. It was recorded by Dante Gizzi And His Brother Guiliano Gizzi (Who was in gun, alongside Dante, and he played lead guitar)Other Gests on the album are Ross Galloway, who played synths on Rocket, Liam Nugent, who performed backing vocals on Rocket.Emma Murphey also performs backing vocals on If You Say You Love me, Hanging Around and Old Times. Also, Alan Thornton (who was also in Gun) drums on tracks 4 to 12. It is not known who drums on tracks 1, 2 and 3, but it is most likely current drummer Dawn Zhu.

They are currently on One Records, Whos other signings include The Flying Matchstick Men and Fickle Public. Their record label is Sony/Bmg, Record label of such artists including Jamiroquai, Foo Fighters, G4 and Lemar.

They are currently writing songs for their next album.

Track listing

  1. "Without You"
  2. "Rocket"
  3. "100 mph"
  4. "Turn This Thing Around"
  5. "Count On Me"
  6. "If You Say You Love Me"
  7. "Hanging Around"
  8. "I Didn't Really"
  9. "Old Times"
  10. "Keep On Walking"
  11. "Honey"
  12. "Come On Now"