Los Tres (album)

[1] The album contains ten songs, all produced by Carlos Necochea and written by the members of the band, mainly Álvaro Henríquez.

[7] In 1991, they released the album through the label Alerce, premiering it in a party at the restaurant Le Trianon in Santiago, while at first the album was mainly performed at college bars and pubs, it slowly began receiving attention, being supported by Chilean radio Rock & Pop, initially with the song "La Primera Vez", which allowed them to gradually enter the mainstream.

[10][9] The effects of the military dictatorship of Chile, which lasted until 1990, a year prior to the release of the album, appear specially towards the middle of the project, the song "Flores Secas" ("Dry Flowers") ends repeating the line "martes de terror" ("tuesday of terror"), making a reference to the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, which happened on a tuesday and started the period of dictatorship, the song "Pájaros de Fuego" ("Fire Birds") is a jazz infused song that is inspired in the Hawker Hunter, a type of aircraft that was used during the coup, and "La Primera Vez" ("The First Time"), is said to be a protest song written about Augusto Pinochet, the leador of the military regime, containing lyrics like "Nauseabundo de traiciones, vomitaste en sus caras, y no pensaste que tal vez volverían por tí, esas calles se nublaron, se perdieron en la sombra, del remordimiento que ahora te hace caer" ("Nauseous by betrayals, you threw up on their faces, and you thought that maybe they would come for you, those streets are cloudy, got lost in the shadow, from the remorse that now makes you fall") that could be directed to him, "La Primera Vez" also appears in the band's 1995 live album MTV Unplugged, where Henríquez recognized that the song was directed towards the people that get to power in morally reprehensible ways.

[10] The album ends with "He Barrido el Sol" ("I Have Swept the Sun"), a polka inspired song that also references Pinochet's regime, it is said that the lines "No es tan fácil, ser feliz, cuando opacaste el barniz que pintaste verde, azul y gris" ("It is not easy to be happy when you covered the varnish that you painted green, blue and grey"), refer to the colors of the different branches of the army in Chile and its involvement in the regime and coup.

Alfredo Lewin from the Chilean radio station Sonar FM considered the album influential in Chilean rock music by starting the career of the band and helping with the expansion of the genre in the country during the nineties, he wrote that "Chilean rock music needed an identity and the band that encapsulates the nineties identity, is a band coming from Concepción, composed by three penquistas and a santiaguino: Los Tres".