Rosalía: Motomami Columbia £10.99
On Rosalía’s Grammy Award-winning second album, El Mal Querer, in 2018, the Spanish musician blended flamenco sounds with experimental pop flourishes to “electrifying” effect, said Nick Levine on NME. On this, her thrilling follow-up, she has pushed herself even harder, and produced a “dazzling musical grab-bag” filled with “sex-positive” sensuality, which blends flamenco, reggaeton, left-field pop, glitchy R&B and hooks that sound like playground chants. This is an artist not so much “carving out her own lane as building her own ultra-modern, super-bendy sonic motorway. It’s one you’ll want to hurtle down again and again.”
It’s “spectacular”, agreed Roisin O’Connor on The Independent – and “hypersexual”. The opener, Saoko, thrums with bass until Rosalía’s delivery arrives in a commanding staccato, singing (in Spanish) of a transformation into a…
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