By José Gandue @Gandour
Much of today's rock music (with a few magnificent exceptions) tends to be boring. Quite boring. That old cliché of playing at naive evil, featuring faces that aim to scare the audience but instead fall into farcical laughter, and sometimes even pity, has lost its appeal. Furthermore, Many iconic rock icons have become, over the years, characters with inert expressions., with unexpectedly arrogant and conservative attitudes, happy to be seen with the most detestable figures of authority. Not even they believe it. The worst part is that Much of what rock music portrays today is incredibly sexist., And, incidentally, it's not very exciting, detached from its original sexuality, that sexuality it displayed with such abandon, above censorship and outdated social rules. In short, that's how Rock stops being fun. The truth is that This, to a large extent, is only rescued by women. Yes, them, the overwhelming women, the ones who no longer apologize when they take over the stage, those who know they are provocative (in every sense of the word) And they don't do it so teenagers can hang their posters on the walls for their lonely nights. They are women who, in all their forms, races, or creeds, are absolutely beautiful and ignite the desires of all audiences. And, incidentally, they write great songs., those that are seared into memory. For all these reasons, we are pleased about the release of Singular, the new album from the Argentinian band Girl X, an album suitable for awakening forgotten libido in times of boredom and despair.
Let's start by talking about sound. Singular It lasts just under 27 minutes. Only 8 cuts, where Curve, White Noise, The Perfect Work and, especially, Poop, mark the peaks of production. In less than half an hour, Nena X presents a sound that combines the updated spirit of new wave, Heavy distortion guitars and a constant dance vibe. Here's a complex production, with constant instrumental variations, unexpected volumes, and layers upon layers of resonant sound, all worked down to the smallest detail. The result is robust, but meticulous in its form. It doesn't need to resort to exaggeration to amplify its force. Now let's talk about happy lust: The delight grows when Sophie de Matteis' voice appears. Her performance is playful, full of sensual turns, but, as soon as she utters the first word, it becomes clear that the challenge she proposes to the viewer is serious; it is a constant challenge to maintain the posture, to take it as it should be taken. Yes, the listener may sense lust in her singing, but she is not easy prey., Rather, it is an explosion that takes hold in the atmosphere, in the face of which each of those present, for their personal enjoyment, must resign themselves to listening, yearning for that impossible seduction.
Perhaps the image that comes to mind when listening to Nena X (and seeing her brilliant, homemade graphic work) is that His focus is on restoring the glamour that Rock deserves these days. In that attempt to recapture the elegance that the genre deserves, we are reminded of iconic names like Duran Duran performing Notorious, David Bowie in his heyday Modern Love, Blondie's first video performances, and, why not? INXS touring the world promoting Kick. The thing is Singular It's a good album because it has that dirty gentleness of yesteryear as a foundational element, mixed, built and recovered thirty and forty years later, across the sea, thousands of kilometers away, by a couple of strong creative personalities (Sophie and her husband Pedro), willing to redeem that desire, that fascination, that spell that music always hopes to awaken in us when we want to be more animalistic and more alive.