The stage is full of torn fabrics that look like dead skin and above the field there is a huge heart that turns on and off simulating heartbeats. A white curtain covers the scene with the image of a scar that alludes to the conceptual idea of the album: a cesarean section. For a few minutes, the audience listens to tense instrumental music and only sees shadows on the canvas, hands that try to get out, and the figures of some musicians behind. At the exact moment, the curtain falls away and Dillom bursts in with his band, a powerful guitar and a very rocking version of Irreversible.
Dillom invades, surprises, bothers. Behind the character is Dylan León Massa, a 23-year-old young man who grew up in Balvanera, CABA, and had a tough childhood. But at no time does he let go of the performance. She looks at the audience in a penetrating way, her face accompanies the lyrics of each song with what each song needs: anger, anguish, helplessness, satisfaction. At times, Dillom and Dylan merge, we no longer know which one is real. And it does not matter.
Luna Park is packed and it’s not the first time he’s played there. His debut was in 2022 with Post Mortemhis first album, a concept album that positioned him as the most disruptive face of the new Argentine trap. Now is the presentation of his second album, By cesarean section, which premiered in April of this year. In an atmosphere of terror it tells the story of a disturbed character, with existentialist and psychotic thoughts.
Tonight, on stage, Dillom runs through the songs of By cesarean section, Post Mortem and his EP Ad Honorem Vol. 1 Accompanied by a band of top-notch musicians who are not left one step behind: Giuliano “Gringo” Tomatis, Ignacio Haye, Franco Dolzani and Fermín Ugarte as a guest. Additionally, Alejandro Terán’s Divergent String Quartet participates in several songs.
The list of almost 25 songs also includes hits that blow up the stadium, such as Stupid, The first, wave of suicides and 220, but the audience shows that they are fans and do not go to see Dillom for sport: from first to last they jump on all the songs and in all the seats they know the complete lyrics of each song. In white lies he went up to sing Broke Carrey and in Ovary Ill Quentin, both artists on the record label Dillom founded, Bohemian Groove.
In what is one of the most sensual moments of the show, Lali appeared on stage with a good Morticia look to do together The cavitythe theme of By Caesarean section that they have together. Another collaboration on the album is My worst enemy with Andres Calamaro. Although the musician cannot attend because he is on tour, his song is also a great moment of the show.
During the course of the show, everything happens and the character of Dillom goes crazy, losing and violating with the passing of the songs. In My friend’s girlfriend He sings sitting in an armchair, with a lost gaze and a set of white balloons that are punctured towards the end. In dollsthe most disturbing song on the album, he sings with a mask and a knife in his hand and in the final phrase —There are problems that only death solves.— he plunges the dagger into his chest, bleeds and falls to the ground.
If Dillom’s songs raised the bar of the urban genre for their sound experimentation, conceptual ideas and lyrics, the experience of his live show puts Argentine music on a level that not everyone dares to climb. To be Dillom you have to open up, break completely and laugh a little. The heart of his music is his absurd ideas and his desire to always go further. He’s not thinking about looking like anyone, he’s not thinking about selling, and yet he sells out two Luna Parks.
