Lux, Light. No title could better embody the nature of this album. “Lux” is the moment when vision becomes sound, and sound becomes revelation.
Rosalía returns with a work that goes beyond the concept of a record: a total art manifesto, where everything – voice, language, orchestration, silence – contributes to building an almost mystical dimension.
It is a monumental, layered, intense, painful, painful project of disarming maturity. A journey through sound matter, where research becomes narration and narration becomes liturgy.
Here there is not only the continuity of an extraordinary career, but a point of no return: “Lux” is Rosalía's creative zenith, her personal “transfiguration”.
In the album you can breathe the world, in the most radical sense of the term: it is a fresco of cultures, eras and sensibilities that blend into a single language. Thirteen languages, including Italian My Christ cries diamonds, they evoke a universal song, a gesture of communion.
The album, recorded with the London Symphonic Orchestra conducted by Daníel Bjarnason, is enriched by the presence of Björk, Carminho, Estrella Morente, Silvia Pérez Cruz, Yahritza, Yves Tumor and the Escolania de Montserrat. It is a feminine constellation that amplifies the spiritual power of the project.
Rosalía is no stranger to metamorphoses. “El Mal Querer” reinvented flamenco in a conceptual pop key, “Motomami” exploded its form with the irreverence of electronics and reggaeton. But here the leap is deeper, almost metaphysical. Lux is no longer an experiment on pop: it is a sonic abstraction that touches classical music, opera, but with the irony of someone who rejects any label.
Between Auto-Tune and orchestral timbres, between flamenco percussion, waltz, fado, sidereal rap, melancholy and choral explosions, Rosalía draws a landscape that seems to belong to another era – or perhaps to none.
In “Lux” everything lives in tension: tradition and the avant-garde, the flesh and the spirit, the human and the divine. It is a record that is listened to with devotion and bewilderment, because it does not console: it questions, wounds, kidnaps.
Rosalía thus signs her riskiest, and perhaps most necessary, work. “Lux” is an act of faith in the possibility that music can still be art, language, truth.
A disc that illuminates and consumes, like the flame that gives its name to its own light.
Here's the album I was expecting! Without a doubt my album of the year!
SCORE: 9.50
THE VOTES OF OTHERS
Rolling Stone (USA) – Rating 10.00
The Times – Rating 10.00
The Guardian – Rating 10.00
Clash Music – Rating 9.00
Pitchfork – Rating 8.60
Financial Times – Rating 8.00
TO LISTEN NOW
Relic – Berghain – The Pearl
TO BE SKIPPED IMMEDIATELY
Impossible to skip anything. All light!
TRACKLIST
1. Sex, Violence and Llantas
2. Relic
3. Divinize
4. Porcelain
5. My Christ cries diamonds
6. Berghain
7. The Pearl
8. New World
9. De Madrugá
10. Dios Es Un Stalker
11. The Yugular
12. Sauvignon Blanc
13. The Rumba Del Perdón
14. Memory
15. Magnolias
DISCOGRAPHY
2017 – Los Angeles
2018 – The evil querer
2022 – Motomami
2025 – Lux
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