El Madrileño
by C. Tangana

Sorprendente mezcla de estilos del Madrileño.

A great album. I don't think anyone saw it coming though.

An unexpectedly great album from C. Tangana. These kind of spanish-speaking urban artists tend to make overproduced albums which follow the same rythm and end up being forgettable, but here Pucho decided to dig into the Spanish and Latin roots and join them in a cohesive album with varied, stellar collaborations. _The only "but" is that the songs are a bit too short and could have been more developed individually, but as a whole the album flows very well has very little weak moments.

PD: I'm happy to see that someone like @Mercury, who doesn't know any of the artists, makes an effort to listen to it more than once and ends up enjoying this album.

From Mercury 03/31/2021 20:49 | #268025

(Excellent pop album. Varied with excellent hooks and melodies and the vocals are lowkey emotional. I don't have much of value to say about this. It is just a quality album start to finish.)

So I heard this once and thought it was ... pretty good. I was left, however, with a sense that I had nothing to say or comment on. So I listened again to see what I get out of it on second listen - and because it was good so of course wanted to hear again. And on second listen I liked it more. The moments that before sounded pretty plastic and uninteresting raised up to at least interesting. And the songs I liked before I liked more. however, I still had next to nothing to cooment on. The production is bright and lively and detailed. The more upbeat dancy tracks hit with a joyous energy. The more introspective and sadder or more reserved pop tracks had a special something that made me relate and vibe with them despite not understanding what exactly was being spoken of. Yet outside of these vague pluses I had nothing else.

On third listen there was no change. I at that point decided that not every album will I have something to say or some particular strong opinion to express. From what I've read on the ionternet about this album the many MANY features include some luminaries. However, I don't recognize any of the names, so I don't know where C. Tangana ends and someone else begins. That is fine, because I think the entire album flows nicely and there aren't any jarring or disjointed tracks that are clearly made with a completely different vision in mind.

In closing, this is a cool pop album and I likes it.

The production of Alizzz is incredible, it gives a very nice new aproach to pop and folk spanish music, but not all songs are that well put together and some sound a bit pastiche.

Overall a big album for C.Tangana but not at the same level as some previous albums by him (like Love's or Agorazein).