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Since Alegranza’s release too many new acts have followed in Díaz-Reixa and Lennox’s sun-blanched wake: Washed Out, Best Coast and Delorean just three of those who seem to be frolicking perpetually on indie’s overcrowded beaches. But Díaz-Reixa’s bursting into other ears always seemed more coincidence than careerist ploy, the arrayed textures, rhythms and melodic flights of Alegranza suggesting an artist with a richer knowledge of Tropicalia, dub and Afrobeat than of hipster trending patterns. If much of that record’s charm came from the feeling that it’d exist whether anyone else noticed it did or not, Pop Negro is a happy continuation of that: Díaz-Reixa’s voice surrounded by a quietly ecstatic clamour that is sounding more and more his own.
Opener Bombay sets the tone, the relentless, run-this-sample-into-the-ground mania of old replaced by a more careful and varied route through shimmering steel pans and 808 claps. El Guincho still makes feel-good music, but the verses, bridges and choruses of Soca Del Eclipse and FM Tan Sexy, as well as their innumerable layers of sound, seem to move it on from Alegranza’s weekend midnights into following-afternoon contemplation. If that record seemed to drop everything else in the devout pursuit of fun, Pop Negro is bustling with other narratives: tight tangles of disco guitar, cascading Latin rhythms, twilight holiday horns and joyous pop chorals that seem to hint at euphoria to come rather than drop you directly into the moment.
It’s when the ceaseless forward momentum of old hijacks Pop Negro’s new structural nous that the most rewarding moments arrive here, the aforementioned Soca Del Eclipse, Ghetto Facil and Muerte Midi highlights of an album that’s among the year’s best, and that, while immediately enchanting, will take years to unravel.
--Kev KharasFind more music at the BBC This link will take you off Amazon in a new window
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missed a bit of an opportunity with his new album
'Pop Negro'. Just three months earlier and it could have
become a big-fun part of the soundtrack to Summer 2010!
These nine consumately crafted and executed compositions
are so chock-full of joie de vivres that you can almost
smell the sea and the sunshine and the blue, blue sky.
At times the sound is quaintly old-fashioned. 'FM Tan Sexy'
could have jumped up and said "Hello" at almost any time
during the mid-eighties and made a wide circle of friends.
The big, staggering beats and cheap, sparkly synth pinning
down this clever little piece of staccato dance mayhem would
have filled the floor. An intelligent and addictive confection.
Opening track 'Bombay' is a cracker too! The good-natured
melody clatters along happily in its own company on a wave
of well-constructed harmonies and steel-band accents.
The mood is largely Latin and the energy rarely lapses.
'Novias' had Mrs Wolf pirouetting round the cave with a rose
between her teeth. I tried hard to be Eduardo to her Gloria
(Arquimbau) but the recent cold weather has left me a little
stiff in the haunches. The spirit, however, remains willing!
There's the odd miss-hit. 'Muerte Midi' never quite gets off
the ground due to its stop/start rhythmic structure but final
track 'Danza Invinto' redeems this minor hiccup with a truly
beautiful and seductive cheek-to-cheek conclusion.
Get it now and it'll keep you warm through the dark months
and still be fresh as a daisy for next year's beach parties.
Recommended.
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