Julia Amor has just released her second album with Primavera Labels. The Andorran artist based in Barcelona specializes with him in a dark synth-pop, which we can link to people like Caliza or Cabiria.
Officially, if her first album, ‘what I thought was love’, was presented as “a cubicle in which Julia hid and reviewed her fears on a loop”, the new ‘something to return to’ is “what happens when she dares to come out of her hiding place.” That explains, for example, why the single ‘something to pass the days’, which was released a few months ago, is so fierce in its electric guitars.
The album is full of gems like ‘Ice Sharp’, the first song, or the instrumental and last ‘Where the Ducks Fly’, which Angelo Badalamenti would have loved.
The song we selected as Song of the Day is ‘looking for arms’, a very cinematic production and to some extent so progressive that it almost seems like a video clip in itself. “I’m looking for the end, I fall into the high seas,” he begins by saying, before the electropop beats enter, the more danceable tempo and the Autotune shine. Julia Amor “looks for arms, a ship to save her, a haunted house or a star,” while the melody of the verses points towards positivism.
Julia Amor presents this wonderful new album on several dates this fall: on November 8 she will be in Valencia, on November 20 in Alicante (Festival Bello Público with Marcelo Criminal and Soleá Morente), and on December 4 in Barcelona with Doble Pletina. Details on his Instagram.
