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four weeks pass...
whole thing's really good. amor supremo was obviously going to be difficult to top and while this isn't even in the same league, it's easily a solid follow-up. i think the long gap between proper albums was to her advantage with this one. definitely has a less ethereal sound in the production. highlights carry it, but she's really doing different things with her voice on this album and it seems intentional. maybe a bit cheese at times, but she sounds great.
overall, 3-3.5 mics. "diamantes" <—absolute smash
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Saturday, 30 April 2022 01:26 (two years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/27/arts/music/carla-morrison-el-renacimiento.html?campaign_id=53&emc=edit_ms_20220429&instance_id=60049&nl=louder®i_id=37355772&segment_id=90870&te=1&user_id=062566bcd9872d3bfa0c4b1ac1e046b4
“I was on tour and I was hating it,” she said. “And I wanted to make music and I was hating it. And I just had no songs to offer.”
...With Jiménez, she moved from Mexico to Paris in 2019. They passed auditions to enroll at a music conservatory in a Paris suburb, where Morrison studied jazz singing; it was her first formal music education after a decade as an award-winning songwriter. She immersed herself in Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday and, surrounded by fellow musicians, she also eased back into writing songs....
In Paris, working on songs during quarantine isolation, Morrison was ready to change her sound again. “For the longest time, I felt very pressured to keep my guitar close,” she said. “I felt very pressured to be this singer-songwriter, because I know people love that side of me. But I also was like, ‘No! I listen to Adele, to Sam Smith, to Billie Eilish, to Ariana Grande, to Dua Lipa.’ And I was like, ‘I really want to channel that. I just want to go pop. And I don’t want to be afraid.’”
Morrison weathered another bout of depression in 2021 after losing her father to Covid-19.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 1 May 2022 07:28 (two years ago) link
I need to relisten to Amor Supremo, my love story with Carla Morrison was firmly with the first.
I am not sure I feel the generic r&b / trap production rather than the sparse singer-songwriter approach, but I guess it's discrete enough, more importantly the tunes are there, and her voice is still that soft caress and warm embrace. I can't think of her as a pop artist (yet), but probably this started already on the previous.
On first listen, Diamantes, Mi Ansiedad, Soñar stand out immediately. It's a tired comparison but I imagine Eillish nodding in approval at Obra de Arte. Divino is nice. Nice collection of 11 songs.
― Nabozo, Sunday, 1 May 2022 18:39 (two years ago) link
nine months pass...
eight months pass...
^^^so that's ended up as one of my favorite songs of the year. took until summer to fully go there, but yeah: definitely approved for all audiences.
― "another slice of death, please." (Austin), Friday, 27 October 2023 21:47 (six months ago) link