Blacanova - La Cabeza (2018) EN

My favourite Spanish band comes back with a new album. And that's great news as "La Cabeza" (or "The Head") is a worthy successor of "Blacanova" and "Regiones Devastadas". The Andalusians serve another dose of fantastically atmospheric dreampop sounding as it was born in the far North, not in the sunny Sevilla.

As we got accustomed to on the previous albums, "La Cabeza" offers dense shoegazing dreampop whose characteristic trait is the dialogic vocals - male and extremely airy female one. The songs are also not deprived of catchiness as the single "Una mujer venezolana" is singable from the very first moments. Other tracks fascinate with their mesmerizing guitars making the vocals sound as if they were taken out of dreams (check out the extremely oneiric "El ángel exterminador" for example).

The music and the vocals create a soothing mixture that is rarely disrupted by slightly more aggressive guitars (as in "El abismo"). it's clear that the Spaniards concentrated on continuing the sound from their previous albums, no wonder they recorded this album, just like "Regiones Devastadas" with Raúl Pérez. With the new album, Blacanova makes a powerful statement that they belong to Europe's shoegazing top league. 

"La Cabeza" costs 6 EUR.

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