El mal querer

"A crisp 30 minutes long, El Mal Querer is clearly intended to be a concept album - each track comes with a chapter number and subtitle - although without either a translation or any fluency in Spanish, what the concept may be remains a mystery. It doesn't matter: this is music potent and adventurous enough to grip you without you understanding a word of what she's actually singing. Whether it's going to appeal to the kind of audience who have bought into the vogue for Latin pop thus far is another question: even at its most straightforward, it's not terribly straightforward and it's a very long way indeed from Despacito. Or anything else in the charts. But that's its appeal. Whether it heralds the arrival of a new pop phenomenon or not, El Mal Querer is the calling card of a unique new talent".

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"There is as much subtlety in both the compositions and production as there is drama, all of it imbued with restless soul via Rosalía's singular voice that marries the folk lineage of flamenco to 21st century styles and sounds, making El Mal Querer not only a provocative and original offering, but a magnificent one as well".

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"Best New Music" - "It is one of the most exciting and passionately composed albums to appear not only in the global bass tradition but in the pop and experimental spheres this year".

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"Rosalía Vila Tobella er en spansk sangerinde, som på ganske kort tid er kommet på fornavn med hele verden under kunstnernavnet Rosalía. I de internationale musikmedier bliver hun kaldt et geni, en reformist og en ild. Og med sit andet album, 'El Mar Querer', har hendes navn spredt sig som en steppebrand langt ud over de spansktalende landegrænser. Rosalía blander klassisk avantgardistisk pop, elektronisk musik, syntetisk r&b og alverdens andre musikalske temperamenter ind i den over 250 år gamle og oprindeligt andalusiske flamenco, og hun har dermed bragt genren ind i et nyt årtusind. 'El Mar Querer' er en af den slags album, der overrasker, jo mere man lytter sig ind i det. Det starter traditionelt og udfolder sig gradvis i en mere søgende og eksperimenterende retning. I anslaget 'Malamente' ser man næsten den røde kjole med flæserne for sig, den stramme knold og den røde læbestift, de høje hæle og den spanske guitar".

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