GUTS
Olivia Rodrigo
Universal music
After a promising debut (unexpected Sour2021) and make notes here and there, lThe former Disney girlfriend has a second album coming out that looks like a cross on her jaw. At just 20 years old, the Californian singer and actress has demonstrated an enviable sadness, channeled through tracks that find her bittersweet and sincerely questioning being a teenager and flirting with a celebrity.
All without saving pies hairy stone, which, as the album title suggests, is from a tripwith balance (it includes both frantic rock songs and sentimental ballads, worthy of the vocal rank that elevates it from calculated grit to a despainarless whisper) and substance.
Highlights: the familiar “Vampire” (or “The Weight of Fame Is Bearing on Me”), the also popular “Logical” (conmovedora) and the notable “Teenage Dream”, as well as the other most shocking ones (“Bad Idea, Really”). “?,” “Bring him back!” or “Love is confusing”) remember the urgency of the first Avril Lavigneand not so much, as the gasps say, Taylor Swift. Discaso.
The earth is inhospitable, and so are we.
Mitski
Dead Oceans
On her seventh album, Mitski, an artist whose mother is Japanese and father is American, one of the most inspired composers of the modern stageit must revolve around an analogue and organic atmosphere (two aspects unanimously emphasized by the critical praise this album represents) in order to blossom. songs like wine (rarely lasting more than three minutes) and they range between country, gospel and dance with slide guitars, with stately orchestras that are simple and sometimes complete.
A story in which the joy of searching – and hallazgos – sounds like previous work and it captures the album’s once-themed themes in a landscape that is as memorable as possiblehighlighted by themes such as “Bug Like an Angel”, “Star”, “My Love Mine All Mine” or “Heaven” (these are the last two, the best of the album, along with the extraordinary and short “I Don’t Like It”) . “There is beauty in desolation,” Mitski seems to be saying. (and still does, as seen at the end of “The Deal”). And who wanted to see what else.
Movie sound
Jonas Kaufmann
Sony Classic
In case the record is more commercially ambitious than her career, German tenor Jonas Kaufmann draws on the repertoire that is usually common among opera singers when they decide to cross the border of popular music: movie themes.
He did this with the same weapon that made him the best tenor of his generation: charisma, expressive power, impressive voice, illusory versatility. Accompanied by the National Symphony Orchestra, Kaufman explores 22 vibrant themes (“The Most Beautiful Night of the Year,” “Serenade,” no coincidence éxitos Mario Lanzagreat Hollywood tenor of the 1950s) to success (“Moon River”, sung by a middle voice, prodigy), going through some extravaganza (“Por una cabeza,” de Gardel and Le Pera, correct in Argentinean.; melody “Reality” from megaéxito ochentoso Boom) and moments of undeniable beauty (for example, Ennio Morricone’s score). An hour will pass and how to act and desconexion. The same as in the movies.