Cartago rises from the ruins of convention as a Brazilian all-female art-punk collective that refuses to choose between intellect and instinct, beauty and destruction. Named after the ancient city that was destroyed and rebuilt, then destroyed again, Cartago embodies cycles of creation and collapse, transforming both into art. Their sound is a collision of post-rock intensity, punk ferocity, and poetic sophistication — imagine if Clarice Lispector formed a band with Sonic Youth in the streets of São Paulo. The collective weaves together distorted guitars, experimental noise, and spoken-word poetry in Portuguese, creating sonic manifestos that are simultaneously literate and feral. Their music tackles philosophy, feminism, and the Brazilian experience through a lens that's both deeply intellectual and viscerally physical. Each performance is an act of creative destruction, where beauty isn't preserved but rather discovered in the moment of its undoing. Cartago doesn't just play music; they conduct séances for dead empires, write love letters to chaos, and build monuments from feedback and fury. In their hands, art-punk becomes a form of archaeology — excavating the ruins of patriarchy, capitalism, and colonialism to build something incandescent in the collapse.