Caracazador has published these days one of the revelation albums of the season. In truth, it is his second album after the release of ‘Marea y plata’ in 2020, but without a doubt the artist has experienced a boost after being signed by GOZZ Records, the label from which Zahara self-manages his career and which until now It did not have singers outside its environment. Zahara rescued him from a composition workshop a couple of years ago and is now publishing this second album.
The new feature is called ‘República’, and is written and produced entirely by the caracazador himself. It is defined as an x-ray of a love in 10 chapters, that is, the 10 songs “x-ray a relationship with comings and goings, escapes and encounters.” Several previews have been released, such as ‘Casamurada’ or the wonderful piano ballad that opens the album, ‘God bless this house’. The one we selected as Song of the Day is ‘MI ROSERO’.
Although caracazador’s influences include people like James Blake, to whom we could attribute those sampled gasps, ‘MI ROSTRO’ begins more like a very Spanish song marked by the guitar, which can remind us of folklore rescuers like Vicente Navarro. Soon the production will become nervous, incorporating dark percussion that hovers around danceability (it would be a sinister dance), showing the artist’s own restlessness.
We are facing a song of heartbreak that is nothing more than a plea that the loved one not forget our “face”, but it includes a very disturbing point both in the production and in one of the verses, that of “put on to pretend, I will pretend.” that I am you. Perhaps a reference to ‘Call Me By Your Name’?
Other verses are clearer: love is already absent (“when I pronounce your name in the darkest night, your name always sounds farther away than all the stars”), although he still remembers it (“I will love you as if it were the last time”). So much so that he begs in the final bridge “don’t forget me”, before the song gives way to a “fade out”. A “non-single” that challenges the 5 advances that the album had had and proof of its compositional solidity.
