How to compose a song
Jeff Tweedy
Contra | 2021
Composing a song is capturing ephemeral ideas, capture and share them. It's not something easy to understand, but the veteran composer of the band Wilco, Jeff Tweedy, it will help you. And not only to know the process, but to be able to do it yourself. A manageable diary-like book in which he shares his habits and advice: join seemingly unconnected verbs and nouns, cut out sentences to rearrange them randomly or underline words from a book until you have enough to tell something. An authentic masterclass told by someone who was already clear at the age of seven that he was a composer (long before having composed anything) and who enjoys the creative process to the point of wanting to tell and share it. How to compose a song It is a book that you will read almost in one go because of how interesting and relatable it is., and that will give you numerous ideas when writing and finding inspiration.
Totem
Laura Perez
Astiberri | 2021
Because it's not just music that gets us excited at Toxicosmos, Today we talk to you about a graphic novel with a very careful edition that contains in each of its strokes and colors something that it shares with the songs.: the ability to catch us and marvel us. As if a composition of enigmatic melodies were, the argument of Totem It takes place along different journeys and characters that are somehow intertwined., where silence and mystery immerse us in totally magical sensations. With his personal way of drawing and perceiving what surrounds us and that we do not always see, The new work by the Valencian Laura Pérez shows a collection of everyday situations ready to be observed until they become mysteriously extraordinary.
Disco local:
Manelubly
Metamorphosis
Self-published | 2021
With memories of indie from the nineties and singing in Spanish. This is how it is presented Metamorphosis, the debut of the Valencian band Manutebol, of careful lyrics and production, with influences ranging from Los Planetas to Nacho Vegas and always with guitars as protagonists.
National Disc:
Chandal jacket
Future, you used to be cool
Bankrobber | 2022
Second album by the trio Tracksuit jacket with a perfect title for these times: Future, you used to be cool. Songs in Spanish with acidic lyrics and pop melodies, in which guitars and distortion intermingle with powerful electronic elements.
International disc:
Fickle friends
Are we gonna be alright?
Cooking Vinyl | 2022
Twelve cuts in the very powerful and luminous new album by the English Fickle friends, in which electronic songs with a funky soul abound that take turns with some more guitar players. Are we gonna be alright? marks his return after his debut 2018.
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