Un orgull pels teus arrived in July 2025, but it took seeing Exili booked for Oi! in Hoofddorp this September to fully register how solid a debut it remains. The Catalan Oi! band had already built a reputation through a run of EPs and splits since forming in 2017. The full-length simply confirmed what those shorter releases suggested: a group rooted in working-class pride, local history, and the skinhead/Oi! continuum without needing to shout about it.
Exili are drawing their sound from the directness of Codi de Silenci and the wider Catalan and European Oi! tradition that includes bands like Pilseners and Lion’s Law. Early records such as Almogàvers and Via Fora established the template—tight, melodic street punk delivered in Catalan, heavy on historical memory and class solidarity.
Un orgull pels teus is a twelve-song affirmation of exactly what the title promises: pride in your own people. It opens with a nod to “Els Segadors,” Catalonia’s national anthem, before moving through songs that honour labourers who break their backs for little return, local landmarks like La Seu Vella, the memory of the Ebro front, and the everyday rage that keeps a community standing. There is no abstract politics here—just the concrete weight of work, history, and the refusal to lower your head.
In the year since its release the album has travelled further than many expected. Exili’s appearance on the Oi! in Hoofddorp bill—sharing the stage with established names like Lion’s Law and The Reapers—signals that the Catalan scene is no longer content to stay inside its own borders.
The record still sounds like the work of a band that knows exactly where it comes from and who it is singing for. That clarity has not faded. If anything, hearing it now, with the band about to take the material to a Dutch festival floor, only underlines how fully formed the statement was from the start.
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