I just found them yesterday, so I’m no expert. But as far as I can tell Psh-Psh were a portal into 1980s Caracas for the international new wave punk movement. Their song “Hombres” is a slayer on a meridian between Bronx legends ESG and gifted French agit-pop star Lizzy Mercier Descloux (who the Psh-Psh guitarist quotes in one of the lead lines of “Hombre”). Translating loosely from their Bandcamp page (GTranslate would probably do it more reliably, but I think the human touch is good to have for things like this):
Psh-Psh was an all-female band formed in Venezuela at the end of 1980 and ended their activity in 1988. The band consisted of Paz Alejandra Hidalgo on guitar and backup vocals, Esther Cohen on drums and backup vocals, and Ofelia Brito on bass and lead vocals…They did not see themselves as punks and in fact were uncomfortable with this description, but they certainly had many of the chronological and conceptual characteristics to be considered part of the first generation of the genre in our country. They were irreverent: their name mimicks the vocal gesture men use to get the attention of a woman. Their lyrics were irreverent and contained social themes (war, religion, the alienation of modern life)…About these songs, Ofelia says: ‘Some were recorded at rehearsal (those with the poor sound) and others were demos for Sonografica with the goal of recording an album, but it was never recorded after we refused the metamorphosis the record label proposed for us.'”
It’s a great time to support Venezuelan art projects. Buy Psh-Psh’s 1983 compilation album here:
https://humanoderechorecords.bandcamp.com/album/psh-psh-demo-1983