Question: how can you stand out in the immense flood of releases for this winter school year, running from the end of January to mid-February? The answer is simple: publish your album a week before everyone else. So obvious that every year very few think about it. Too bad, but above all so much the better for this Colombian producer and DJ who thus benefits from a media landscape that is still not crowded at this time of year. Translation: without this helping hand, whether voluntary or not, would his record have been lost, sunk by the ever more gigantic mass of new musical releases? The answer is simple (bis): certainly not. Because THEN, his second attempt, immediately develops upon listening a completely eloquent electronic intensity to stand out from the common lot. This former drummer in a hardcore punk band has retained from her heroic times a certain taste for urgency (her first album in 2020 was called Acts of Rebellion).
His musical palette never seeks to round the corners, but rather to carve the beats into metallic sounds that are willingly complicated, thus giving it a little late-era Björk side. (IDK), even if his silkier vocal intonations can also lead him towards a frankly pop register (Broken). This mischievous but assertive voice has already seduced the Frenchman Agoria (featuring What if the Dead Dream) and especially the American of South American origin DJ Python with whom she released a famous EP in 2022, with a deep-slow-reggaeton feel. Juggling between Spanish and English, THERE is the work of a citizen of the world who designed her titles between Mexico, the United States, London and Bogotá thanks to the places where she temporarily put down her suitcase. An album dynamited by the trilogy I Want to Be Better, Onwards et Upwards, three powerful carnal but protesting fires where she carries loudly the voice of an independent woman. Even if Submission by Michel Houellebecq is her bedside book, Gabriella Jimeno (her real name) is not about to give up. Punk one day…
She Minus THERE (Domino)
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