Will
Devil from Shanghai
The Barcelona quintet is one of the many hijos of the pandemic who have flourished on the nation’s indie rock scene in recent years. They published their first singles in 2020 and in the first track you can record in Madrid Camellos, a saddle sharing quiz (Candorro). They gradually rose until the release of the second album an ambition capable of standing out among so many labels. Will It is secured and holds the necessary seals to seal it.
Produced by Sergio Maschetzko (along with English bands The Last Dinner Party and Black Country, New Road), the album combines great songs from minute to minute (‘Tierra Trágame’) with others that don’t belong together (‘Tenía que Valer la Puta Pena’). His letters set the tone for his debut, 113 Passos Adelante en el Ensanche (2023), but they are increasingly challenging and difficult to chew. Hi Sean: If you want to do something different, you might be allowed to be a little arrogant.
Unlike many other guitar groups tending towards more direct lyricism, El diablo de Shanghai is more poetic. They recall the songs that came from Alcala Norte, the band that the Catalan quintet played in their footsteps around the city, or the Irish Fontaines DC, which is a poetic post-punk from albums like Dogrel (2019) A hero’s death (2020) can be found in songs like ‘Editorial’ and ‘Abulia’.
However, the evil of Shanghai also surprises with its fear spoken word (singing while reciting), formulas apparently againsthits, but with what consiguen emocionar. They demonstrated this in the amazing ‘Pisa Fuerte’, hence the repertoire of songs that have achieved the encapsulation of an entire generation.
The voice of the singer Juan Trías de Bes (Juanito) acts as the narrator of the film Eloy de la Iglesia, but in Barcelona Terenci Moix. Even the name of the gang is said to come from a novel by Juan Marsé. Shanghai Embrujo (2009) is a story about dreams and injuries of both children and adults, a theme that also veers Will. Young Catalan band rebobina from adult life hasta la niñez in an original recording, fresh bites.
Nothing will happen to me
Mitsky
The Japanese-born singer sings Chet Baker’s lament Everything happens to me and in his new album he sticks to the right ideas, nothing will happen to me as if you were wondering outside your own life. The songwriter, usually with a low profile, became a Tik Tok star thanks to single ‘My Love Mine All Mine’ from the album The earth is inhospitable and so are we (2023).
Responding to this type of sudden fame, Mitski responded three years later with an album that was minimalistic in length (30 minutes) but maximalist in concept: it tells the story of a beautiful woman who feels free in a haunted house, like Shirley Jackson.
Gatos, ghosts and memories run through the lyrics of the album, which turns sunshine and honey into a mixture vulnerability and frailty. Songs like ‘In a Lake’ or ‘Where’s My Phone?’ Coming from this paranoia imprisonment, “Cats” converts to a cat, which also illustrates fate in complicity in its crime, while “I’ll Change for You” and “Rules” reflect the small rules and sacrifices that turn the acaban into a prison sanctuary.
Mitski is a singer-songwriter without flourish: de Direct lyricism, it simplifies without resultand about the sound that passes through the folk sesenter (a lot Blue de Joni Mitchell) and electronic country which, as a resident of Nashville, he makes a living with gusto. Not needing much flying in his career, he signs a small and soothing album with one who wants to demonstrate his talent to shed light on everyday depression.
Mountain
Gorillaz
Years after their debut, Gorillaz is still another experiment. What began as a satire of the music industry by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett is now a global and multi-generational project. An example is The Mountainon the latest album.
Noveno de su trajeteria, the album is included the journey to India and the death of the fathers of its creatorsand now it’s a clear fight, full of living and dead guests. There are many differences between yes. On the album, we go from Johnny Marr, the legendary guitarist of the Smiths, and IDLES to the young Argentine rappers Bizarrap and Trueno, who sign the only song in Spanish on the album.
The Blur vocalist’s taste isn’t clear yet, that’s for sure. Mysteriously follows their union through the exoticism of sound, where Ajay Prasanna’s flutes and Anoushka Shankar’s sitar mix with pop to create psychedelia.
It could very well be decided that it is one of the band’s most sentimental albums, even if its lyrics demand that we look directly at death without recreating ourselves in tragedy.
In ‘The Sweet Prince’, Albarn sits at his father’s bedside to say “I want you” before he dies, and in ‘Orange County’ he admits that ‘the hardest part is sending someone else to someone who wants them’. The mountain must die less than I can learn to follow with all that weight.
Wuthering Heights
Charli XCX
Kate Bush encountered the ghost of Cathy in ‘Wuthering Heights’, a song from her first album The Kick Inside (1978), now it’s Charli Cumbres borrascosas with an album of the same name that doubles as a soundtrack to a new film adaptation of the novel and a memorable gothic pop album.
Inspired by Emerald Fennell’s leadership, he wishes to escape from hedonism Brat (2024), the British artist was inspired by the romantic and dark universe of Emily Brontë. While in the previous installment he tried to recreate the club culture of the 90s and 2000s, here he adopts the adolescent appearance of Fennell to tell the story between Cathy and Heathcliff, two mischievous lovers. With a mix of pop Bush and rock The Cure, the album finds its place tone at the height of the novel’s neurosis amorosa.
Both the film and the album progress with the powerful and dark ‘House’, a collaboration with John Cale, former founder of the Velvet Underground. “I think I want to die in this house,” replies Charli, giving voice to a sense of suffocation that occurs as often in the stormy streets as in Linton’s palace, from which the protagonist is captured.
This oppression filters into the rest of the album, which runs through the album and the pop. dialogues with Brontë in explicit form in his letters. In “Chains of Love”, he presents a toxic but eternal relationship (“the cadence of love that never breaks”) that directly affects the protagonist’s heart, and in “Wall of Sound” he talks about the protagonist’s dichotomy between reason and desire: “Every time I try to convince myself otherwise, I fear that he desires, something inside me stops me.”
Wuthering Heights e.g an album little appreciated in filmbut it works independently and cements Charli as one of the boldest pop artists of her generation.
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