NSQK Built an Album Out of a Fly Infestation

In 2024, NSQK moved into a small apartment in Monterrey with his girlfriend, now his wife, while rolling out his album ATP. A date at Mexico City’s Pepsi Center had been announced. The project was growing quickly. Then the flies appeared, large green ones, aggressive enough that he was killing as many as twenty a day in his own home.

He was reading Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis at the time, and the book stopped being literature. A man wakes up as a giant insect; NSQK was watching his career change shape around him. The comparison he draws is not flattering to anyone. Criticism, comparisons, envy, the fear of failure, all of it arrived alongside the bigger rooms. He describes the pursuit of more listeners, more tickets, more relevance as a grotesque transformation into something unrecognizable. His manager sent him for an energy cleansing. The flies stayed long enough to become the album’s title.

MOSCA runs seventeen tracks, with rock folded into the electronic, pop and hip-hop sound he has been building. The guest list marks a shift as much as the instrumentation does. Julieta Venegas, Jean Dawson, Eslabón Armado, Kevin Kaarl and Riosse all appear, opening the record to voices other than his own.

What comes next is a stadium. NSQK is planning a new live show for Mexico City’s Estadio GNP Seguros in January 2027, a scale that makes the apartment in Monterrey feel very far away and, by his own account, still present.