#VisioChronique hebdo n°135 : Melenas - Ahora.
Singles extraits des albums coups de cœur hebdomadaires de l’année 2023 du portail #VisioChroniques
disponible sur les plateformes Spotify, YouTube et Apple Music !
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English version :
Melenas - Ahora
This week is inevitably marked by the return of New Yorkers Blonde Redhead, authors of a tenth album reaching the heights: it would be very regrettable if this release, as magnificent as it is, eclipses the very inspired third opus of the Spanish quartet Melenas!
Let go of all your clichés about Iberian music, approach this group with the demands of a listener who is as picky as he is curious. Ahora lives up to its promises: mixing garage and jangle pop on a dominant of analog keyboards propelled by a devilishly effective metronomic rhythm. We will avoid the easy shortcut that would qualify the music of the natives of Pamplona as “Spanish Stereolab”! Here, freshness embraces melancholy with an astonishing sound palette full of well-developed discoveries: Melenas asserts himself and offers us, with this last delivery, an identity as strong as it is remarkable.
Good pick for the Chicago label Trouble In Mind, which saw in Melenas the creative renewal of the retro pop genre in a solar decline. Irresistible and addictive!
