Kispál és a Borz Essentials

That Kispál és a Borz’s legacy seems to hang heavier over Hungary's alternative rock scene with each passing year speaks volumes. Since the Pécs four-piece disbanded triumphantly at Sziget Festival in 2010, they remain respected and influential in their homeland—no wonder, given their stylistic fearlessness. Their catalogue is packed with songs driven by pointed riffs and palpable swagger—“Zsákmányállat” and “Helló” are careening cases in point—but it was their genre-spanning work like the funk-inflected Juci Németh collab “De Szeretnék” that marked them as true originals.