National Record:
the end
When I don't know who I am
Primavera Labels / Universal | 2022
Amaia returns with a second album produced by Alizzz with ten tracks with addictive choruses and abundant sincerity, in which we find collaborations like that of Aitana or a surprising and exciting version of Los Planetas.
National Record:
Dear
Dear
Boy Sound | 2022
On the second album by the female trio Cariño you will find a collection of sweetened punk-pop compositions wrapped in synthesizers, with sweet voices but acidic lyrics. Hits snapshots of one of the national bands with a more meteoric rise.
International Disc:
Belle and Sebastian
A bit of previous
Matador | 2022
The return of the Scots Belle and Sebastian has been in style, with an LP at the level of what any of his fans would expect: perfect melodies, exciting arrangements, disco and soul touches, the delicate voice of Stuart Murdoch and the aura of classic indie-pop that they have never lost.
Vertigo
Rigoberta Bandini
Aguilar | 2022
Paula Ribó still does not have an album in stores, but her alter ego Rigoberta Bandini is already a mass phenomenon. We have seen her releasing singles that have become authentic anthems., even in his Spanish proposal for Eurovision, always with heartbreaking and direct lyrics. That's why, and waiting for the long album debut, We welcome with open arms his first literary reference in which he gives free rein to his ease with the verb.. Vertigo It is a story that emerged from a personal crisis written four years ago and is now being published, revised and in a very careful edition for the general public., a leap into the void of the artist in which she reflects and captures everyday and transcendental thoughts. A small book with a neon green cover and written as a diary that will immerse you in his personal and musical universe and in the foundations of his speech.
Sound Art
Santiago Auserón
Anagram | 2022
We all know that Santiago Auserón is one of the best composers in the country.. That his other passion is philosophy, perhaps not so many. But that facet is what brings you to these pages today., Well, the author of this book is a Doctor of Philosophy and is passionate about Ancient Greece.. Studying and researching for decades the origin of music and how it influenced the birth of philosophy, he managed to collect and analyze a good number of data about our culture., which he expressed in a thesis for his Doctorate that now serves as the basis for his new book: sound art. An ambitious and exhaustive essay on music in Classical Greece and its relationship with the rest of the artistic and philosophical disciplines. A volume of almost 800 pages and of a certain density where the link between music and language is studied and in which those passionate about Hellenistic culture will find moments of enjoyment and learning.
Barbed wire kisses. La historia de the Jesus and Mary Chain
Zoë Howe
Space Waves | 2022
A book about the life and work of the Scots is published for the first time in Spanish Jesus and Mary Chain which originally saw the light in English in 2014. Told by the members of the group and captured on paper by the renowned writer Zoë Howe (who already has experience in this matter of musical biographies) It tells us without concealment or sweeteners the adventures of a band that has always remained in the shadows but that was a revolution in the eighties., one of the clearest influences of indie. Barbed wire kisses It is a volume of 300 pages of very interesting reading loaded with anecdotes, alcohol, acid and fights, with illustrious artists such as Alan McGee from Creation Records or Bobby Gillespie (being part of the band's beginnings and recording albums like the legendary Psychocandy) walking among its leaves. The book that does justice to one of the precursors of shoegaze where the sweetness of the melodies is mixed with the most distorted noise and that created its own sound from the depths of its introverted original composers, brothers Jim and William Reid.
Hey! Julio Iglesias and the conquest of America
Hans Laguna
Contra | 2022
When one fine day the philosopher, writer (and also a musician) Hans Laguna came across a video in which Julio Iglesias sang with Willie Nelson in deep America, so out of context, he knew he had to know his story. Not just how he got to that stage, but how Julio Iglesias had ended up in the USA. That's where it starts an investigation that leads him to discover the plan of marketing which in the eighties made him the “sex symbol of menopause” (or that's how some American journalist described it), the aggressive promotional actions and the artist's adaptation to the vagaries of market studies. A plan seasoned with a life of excess and waste, women, million-dollar contracts and private jets, all well washed down with red wine. Hey! Julio Iglesias and the conquest of America It is an authentic research work with special mention to the collection of photos that accompanies its pages. By the way, Will Rosalía follow in his footsteps?? We'll see.
If Freddie Mercury hadn't died
Julio Carreras Llisterri | 2022
The Valencian writer Julio Carreras Llisterri launches into self-publishing in this fiction novel that is essential reading for Queen fans. Set between London and Liverpool, with a getaway to Ibiza, on the pages of If Freddie Mercury hadn't died we find a group of friends (because friendship is the real plot of the book) who try to help each other, each one in their own way, at a crossroads to discover another possible truth about the end of Freddie Mercury. A trip that has the purpose of closing a cycle and fulfilling a wish, in which pub afternoons, trips, parties and coincidences happen in a book full of little mysteries. Y, as if that were not enough, To spice up the story, the band's songs are reviewed in the form of data, curiosities and anecdotes that will make Mercury fans doubly happy. A pleasant story to read with the British band's albums at hand and listen between chapters.
Shortcomings
Adrian Tomine
Sapristi | 2022
Our last literary recommendation is not musical, but we are sure that Toxicosmos followers will love it, Well, the signature of one of our favorite illustrators. We talk to you about Adrian Tomine, born in California in 1974, and that after several launches in our country now sees published in Spain what in 2004 marked his debut. With a cover that will attract the attention of pop lovers, inside hides a story in which the protagonists Miko and Ben fall into the abyss of deterioration as a couple, with their discussions and doubts. Drawn in black and white and with its characteristic lines, the graphic novel Shortcomings places readers in an exceptional and privileged situation on the scene. Because Tomine doesn't tell stories, exhibits them. And as spectators we observe the most intimate reactions, the relationships of its protagonists and the feelings that their actions provoke.
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