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Jonathan Bogart: Caffeinated jangle-pop of a sort nearly two decades out of date in the Anglosphere, with lyrics that read like a child’s idea of sexiness, would not have been my first pick for a song that would make me smile this week, but I am a deep, deep sucker for caffeinated jangle-pop, and the lyrics being in Portuguese makes them sound slightly more sophisticated than they are. First up, a Brazilian telenovela actress-turned-singer…
Welcome to our annual coverage of the Latin Grammy Best New Artist nominees! Today and tomorrow we’ll be reviewing the singles of the contenders we haven’t covered yet. I buy the juddering bass rhythm and the drum snaps and the wistful accordion, but she never sounds like anything more than a tourist.Ĭomments Off on Mon Laferte – Si Tú Me Quisieras Tuesday, November 15th, 2016 11:00 am Which is fine, there are always too many people dressing up in sepia-toned authenticface, and at least this isn’t that but I don’t quite buy it. Jonathan Bogart: A Chilean playing Tejano rockabilly with a properly Mendozan rasp in her throat but pitched at girl-group theatricality rather than anything more auténtico.
Will Adams: The Texas pastiche is enough to turn “Si Tú Me Quisieras” into musical theatre, but the sheer joy of the arrangement is enough to keep me bopping about like Peanuts characters anyway.Įdward Okulicz: Such levels of perk, and other things, remind me of a particularly unforgivable pleasure of mine: “You’re the One That I Want.” Aggressive cheer has seldom been this committed. Iain Mew: I dig the staidly rocking guitar/accordion, and I dig the breathless urgency of the vocal, but that’s a mismatch of modes that the song doesn’t do too much to resolve.Ĭassy Gress: Mon’s voice is all scruffy edges atop a song that I swear sounds like a “Greetings from Texas” postcard dated around an ephemeral 1962, but the edges wear away for just one fluttery moment, near the end when she dreams of forgiving him and getting out of therapy, if he’d just pinches love her. Alfred Soto: A bruiser of a track, with a huge-voiced belter outsinging an accordion in the hopes of wooing her beloved. Next up, a Chilean artist whose designation as “new” might be a bit questionable, but hey, we’re not complaining… – Una y Otra Vez Tuesday, November 15th, 2016 3:02 pm
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Will Adams: Petition to have Manual Medrano replace Ed Sheeran in the States. I somehow feel like I am being guided down the River Styx listening to this, a subtle reminder of the enduring evils of acoustic singer songwriter pop by any means. “Una y Otra Vez” does the same thing, a waltz slipping gloriously through streets and countrysides as the sky darkens, as Manuel confesses that it’s time to start something serious.Īdaora Ede: The combination of the lo-fi riff with the yodeled chorus is charming, of course, but Medrano doesn’t do much else to change the pace of this downstream ride. The way that he weaves all across the spaces in the verses, the better to emphasise that, suggests he realises it’s the best thing he’s got going for him too.Ĭassy Gress: When you dream about walking places, do you feel your feet actually touching the ground? In my dreams, it’s less of a walk and more of a glide, kind of moving walkways at airports, but if I was hovering like an air hockey puck. Iain Mew: I really like his voice, imperfect but with determined character. Although it doesn’t offer anything innovative, I’m really thankful that he avoids being over-affected - as so often happens in Latin American love ballads.
Juana Giaimo: “Una y Otra Vez” is airy and keeps things simple, and Manuel Medrano’s warm voice fits it really well.
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Stick him on an EDM track and be coy about his skin tone, and he’d be festival massive.Īlfred Soto: It boasts the languorous chug of Radiohead’s “Creep” but not TLC’s “Creep,” with Manuel Medrano sounding like José Feliciano. Jonathan Bogart: A Colombian singer-songwriter who’s clearly learned as much from John Legend as from models closer to home, with rolling gospel rhythms and an understated soul-derived singing style, and reassuringly processed guitar breaks for listeners who get too antsy around R&B.
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