Piñas had not previously played in any other band, but Kutxi - who was a very good friend of his - persuaded him to join as bassist.

After having played live about 200 times in approximately 3 years, they decided to a break from touring to work on their following album.

[1] In 2006, Kutxi Romero announced that Marea were working on their fifth album, Las aceras están llenas de piojos, which was released in 2007.

It includes two CDs; one featuring 18 of their best songs (Coces al aire), and one with previously unreleased songs and alternate versions (Jaurías de perros verdes), 2 DVDs - one with all their videos and some live recording and another including a whole live concert, a picture book and a biography of the band written by the journalist J. Óscar Beorlegui.

In 2011 they released their sixth studio album En mi hambre mando yo mixed in Canada by Mike Fraser.