Fangoria released the first single from their new studio album in the early hours of Tuesday to Wednesday, the first 10 years after ‘Songs for romantic robots’. This came out in February 2016. In between, two ill-fated cover albums, a trilogy of EPs that included the song ‘Absolute Momentism’, a couple of live albums and, above all, a multitude of concerts throughout the country.
Alaska confirmed on Pasapalabra – where better than on the true leading program on Antena 3 – that Fangoria’s new album will be called ‘The Truth or the Imagination’ and will be released at the end of April. The first preview ‘Me voy’ is not an adaptation of Miss Caffeina’s recent alternative reggaeton of the same name, but that song they dropped at the end of a medley at Benidorm Fest.
‘Me voy’ has the mark of its four authors (Olvido Gara, Nacho Canut, Mauro Canut and Fernando Delgado), as well as its co-producer Juan Sueiro. The other co-producer is Matt Pop, who has worked on recent remixes of Erasure or Ace of Base.
If lyrically ‘I’m leaving’ is a new song of freedom, of self-affirmation, of self-conviction to leave behind a relationship that has not gone well or has already given everything of itself; The music places us in Fangoria’s normative electropop vein. The inspiration for the melody could be ABBA, and the inspiration for the production could be Pet Shop Boys. Another PSB comes to mind, Paloma San Basilio, if only because this already seemed like the melodic inspiration for ‘Geometria polisentimental’.
Fangoria thus establishes that “made in Spain” facet, somewhat folkloric, that was always in their DNA and they consolidated especially somewhere between ‘The Strange Journey’ and ‘Absolutamente’, trying to add a new hit to that setlist that they usually stroll through festivals and towns in Spain. It does not seem like a coincidence that Benidorm was precisely the setting chosen to premiere the song. About the disruptive times of ‘In my prison’, ‘Electricistas’ or even ‘Dramas and comedies’… no word.
Charging …