El Bien y Mal Nos Une
Studio album by Omar Rodríguez-López
Released	September 23, 2016
Recorded	2009—2012
Genre	Experimental rock, dub, electronica
Length	35:51
Label	Ipecac Recordings
Producer	Omar Rodríguez-López
Omar Rodríguez-López solo chronology
Umbrella Mistress (2016) El Bien y Mal Nos Une (2016) Cell Phone Bikini (2016)
Omar Rodríguez-López chronology
Antemasque (2014) El Bien y Mal Nos Une (2016) Crystal Fairy (2017)

El Bien y Mal Nos Une (transl. Good and Evil Unite Us) is the thirty-second studio album by Omar Rodríguez-López as a solo artist, released on 23 September 2016.^[1] It is his sixth release in the 12 album series initiated by Ipecac Recordings.^[2] The majority of the album features Deantoni Parks on drums with the exception of "Perdido" which is performed by The Mars Volta frontman Cedric Bixler-Zavala.

The album was primarily recorded years prior which is presumably why Deantoni Parks performs on the majority it. Furthermore, it features several remixed (and partially re-recorded) versions of songs originally released in 2010 on Un Escorpión Perfumado under different titles: "Acuérdate" (previously "Que Dice Pessoa?"), "Amor Frío" (previously "Incesto O Pasión?"), "Humor Sufi" (previously "Estrangular el Extranjero") and "Yo Soy La Destrucción"/"Planetas Sin Sol" (previously "Mensaje Imputente"/"El Diablo y la Tierra").^[3] "Amor Frío" would go on to be released again as a rearranged version on Rodríguez-López's fiftieth studio album, Is It the Clouds?

Clouds Hill, who rereleased the album on vinyl, describes the record thusly: "An alternative version of Omar's records [sic] 'Un Escorpión Perfumado', full of deep thoughts about life and death."^[4]

"Un Acto De Fe" was uploaded in advance as the album's single.

The Quietus was favorable toward the album, describing it as "sinister…altogether darker [than Escorpion]…ruthless…arrives like a nuclear strike…abetting a restlessness and dread that abounds throughout the record…punishes with implied violence."^[5][3] The online magazine also praises Parks' drumming on the record.^[6] Verbicide, however, describes El Bien y Mal Nos Une as "a collection of catchy choruses wrapped up in funky synths and your not-so-standard sampler sounds."^[7] Mxdwn Music was more middling toward the album, mentioning that it might be too unconventional, dissonant, and avant-garde for the average listener, although they do delineate it as thoughtful and intelligent.^[8]

Heavy Pop gave El Bien y Mal Nos Une a rating of 6/10, stating that it's "strangely laid-back yet simultaneously enormously hyperactive, constantly switching between calmly marveling at its own synth landscapes and frenetically motivated bounding ahead. It's somewhere like experimental pop for Latin American space stations – incredibly densely woven yet breathing artificial air." Lastly, The Music gave the album a rating of 5/5, who also praises Deantoni Parks' drumming and also the electronic influence.^[9]

• Omar Rodríguez-López – vocals, guitars, sequences, synths, percussion
• Deantoni Parks – drums
• Marcel Rodríguez-López – keys, percussion
• Teri Gender Bender – backing vocals
• Cedric Bixler-Zavala – drums (track 5)

• Omar Rodríguez-López – producer
• Lars Stalfors – recording
• Jon Debaun – recording
• Shawn Sullivan – recording
• Chris Common – mixing, mastering
• Flo Siller – mastering (vinyl)
• Chris von Rautenkranz – mastering (vinyl)

• Adán Guevara – art and layout