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Smartini is Portuguese quartet formed in a village between Guimarães and Braga. The formation of the band consists of Lourenço Mendes (voice and guitar), Ricardo Costa (bass), Patrícia Ferreira (drums) and João Paulo Duarte (guitar). They began to play in the early 1990s as Almas Nocturnas and some years later the started to act as Subcultura. In the transition to the 2000s, João Paulo Duarte joins the band complementing it with a multidimensional guitar sound, using the effects pedals. Their sound bens between its arty lyrics and the sound moving from shoegaze and sonic rock.