‘While the Guadalquivir flows and flows and flows’ will be the new album by Viva Belgrado and the first after the enormous ‘Cancionero de los cielos’, which left indispensable indie rock songs – no matter the language – of this decade such as ‘Un skylight’.
The group of Cándido Gálvez, Jaime Acosta, Álvaro Mérida and Cris G. Sánchez has presented their fifth album with the thunderous ‘Un andalucito más’, and the second preview reduces the tension and proposes a more melodic, contained and nostalgic guitar pop sound.
‘Superfuture’ seems to be a key theme in While the ‘Guadalquivir flows and flows and flows’ as it will be the one in charge of closing an album that talks about the “weight of the past and the cyclical processes that take us back to the beginning again and again.” Today’s Song of the Day learns to accept the present and embrace the future because “the good is yet to come.” Although his main proclamation may be the one that says: “I hate fate.”
Written over electric guitar lines very The Cure, which evoke the most radioable college rock of the 80s and 90s, ‘Super Future’ does not turn its back on the past or nostalgia, remembering that there was a better past in which “Anguita was alive” and in which the narrator “used to snack a lot more”, which, to our eyes, seems like a memory of youth.
However, the motto of the song is to keep moving forward: “The years I have lost / I won’t get them back.” The line “The future follows you to the end / for the days that will come and that will go” summarizes that idea as it reminds us that time does not stop and that the future ends up reaching us whether we want it or not: the only option is to receive it with the same mixture of resignation, optimism and carelessness that the entire song conveys.
