A dynamic, colourful, passionate third LP by the Los Angeles pop artist of Mexican and Salvadoran descent here singing mainly in Spanish with operatic pop, cumbia, psychedelia, dance music, with titular translation and theme as ‘twin self’. In part the album soundtracks a journey through the different stages and forms of grief, loneliness, beauty, and tension, eventually finding liberation, and universal themes like religion, spirit, heritage, womanhood, and ancestral veneration. “What is the colour of pain? she asks on soaring standout Color de Dolor, while Juanita channels with strutting exhuberence the spirit of her great-great grandmother with a thumping cumbia, pysch and witchy, ghostly laughter. Other standouts include Mírame, the punchy semi-rapping Y Grito, the dynamic soft and loud voices and percussive El Que, the title track, in which she breaks into English lyrics: “I see double everywhere I go,” on that twin theme the idea of a second, more intuitive self within before closing track Paloma. With her verve, style and energy, and transcending cultures, Garcia has a bewitching presence and power. Out on Partisan Records.
Angélica Garcia
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