The 10 best national albums of 2021

  • The experts of EL PERIÓDICO choose the albums of artists from here who made another year of uncertainties more bearable

The year 2021, the second year of the pandemic era, throws a critical balance of albums in which the pop sign dominates, rich in comforting or evasive songs, and that opens up to folk, country, urban, electronic or experimental accents. We go through our Top 10 of the year.

‘The nightclubs in the afternoon’, by Tachenko

Tachenko, the group from Zaragoza that emerged two decades ago after the meltdown of El Niño Gusano, is growing thanks to temperate pop and ample resources, with displays of awake classicism and happy occurrences to the rhythm of ‘disco’. Watchtower of maturity.

‘Contigo’, by Maria Rodés and The Star of David

The alliance of the singer-songwriter with David Rodríguez (accomplice of La Bien Querida) runs through the seasons of the pairing, from the crush to the divorce. I sing to patient love, old-fashioned, woven with sympathetic and emotional country-pop wickers.

‘Telluric Wanderers / Toribio Project’, by Los Hermanos Cubero

The folk duo explores their origins in La Alcarria with a lively double songbook, combining dance and introspection (along with voices like Christina Rosenvinge or Rodrigo Cuevas) and paying homage to violinist Toribio del Olmo. Adorable timelessness.

‘Future Ruins’, by Wild Honey

A pop chamber monument with intimate chiaroscuro and refined string and metal arrangements. Guillermo Farré from Madrid places himself, in his own free way, and in complicity with Remate (co-production), in the wake of noble feathers such as Brian Wilson or PaddyMcAloon.

The Barcelona-born Eva Valero captures us in her pop cabaret staring openly at the 80s, at the synthesizer line with echoes of ‘new romantic’ and hastaitalo-disco. The insinuating songs command, with slender melodic contours, vulnerable and conquering.

‘City of the two moons’, from Cabiria

The Barcelona-born Eva Valero captures us in her pop cabaret staring openly at the 80s, at the synthesizer line with echoes of ‘new romantic’ and hastaitalo-disco. The insinuating songs command, with slender melodic contours, vulnerable and conquering.

‘There must be something else’, by Alizzz

Cristian Quirante made a name for himself next to C. Tangana (and Rosalía), and in his solo debut, he downgraded urban orthodoxy and launched into a shimmering pop with electronic touch, accessible and rich in inventiveness. Treats one after another.

The paths of pop are endless, and Palau extracts gold from a sound plastic both mysterious and clear, with floating melodies and sensual friction with the r’n’b. Protracted metaphysical pop peak, late 2021, with the acoustic album ‘Joia’.

‘Hardcore from the heart’, de Joana Serrat

Back from his Texan Shangri-La (‘Dripping Springs’, 2017), Vic’s sings to the wounds of the soul, shifting its ‘roots’ accents towards a dream-pop of open spaces and sonic curtains. Comforting songbook, with melancholy and pop highlights.

‘El madrileño’, by C. Tangana

The most modern can be the most deeply rooted, and Pucho breaks the shell of the trap by drawing bridges with a traditional imaginary: Easter steps, flamenco quejíos and hugs to popular overseas music in an album that opens up new horizons.

‘Clamor’, by Maria Arnal and Marcel Bagés

The singing and guitar pair (and mechanical electronics) projects into the future a muffled rumor from the beginning of time, shaping popular rhythms with avant-garde spirit and multiplying the power of the voice. A convulsive cosmic ode with a humanistic background.

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The list of the best national albums of the year has been drawn up with the votes of Jordi Bianciotto, Ignasi Fortuny, Juan Manuel Freire, Julián García and Rafael Tapounet

Reference-www.elperiodico.com

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