Entrancing third LP by the 29-year-old Catalonian star singer with a voice of huge range, mixing flamenco with reggaeton, hip hop, R&B and lush pop, feminism and food, heartbreak, the staccato with the smooth, and influences from MIA to Niña Pastori and José Mercé. Inevitably here are commercial elements, but these are eclipsed by her natural singing talents, with highlights that include the magical La Fama (in which Canada’s The Weeknd sings in a complementary style along in Spanish), the swinging, finger-clicking Saoko, the flamenco, almost unaccompanied Bulerías in which her voice really soars, the beautiful piano-accompanied Hentai, and the wonderfully oddball hip-hip electronica fusion Motomani - which pertains to ‘an energy’. On Diablo, for example, the inevitable Auto-Tune and Vocoder appears occasionally, but is never overdone, serving more for experimental and inventive purposes, out of which Rosalía’s bird-like vocals continuously fly, also exemplified in the more traditional jazz-inflected and rather beautiful Delirio de Grandeza, mesmerising in style and versatility. Out on Columbia.
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