Maria Yfeu is one of the emerging names of the national underground. Natural of Seville but settled in Madrid, Yfeu became known by practicing a miscegenation of Soul, R&B and guitars that remembered the Amy Winehouse of ‘Frank’ (2003) in her single ‘Let it Grow (Up)’, or in others Cortes included in his debut album of 2022, ‘Santo Amaro’, such as ‘Love and Lust’.
The sound of Yfeu has evolved and the advances of his second album indicate that, in particular, it has been electrified, and that now the guitars of the new blues of Nilüfer Yanya, King Krule or the first Senra have been able to guide their new path.
It is the sound presented by the single ‘fether (before it changes)’, while ‘c/old’ sits on a piano base, equally bleak. The surprise has given it ‘Tell me no’, which is for now the best song by Maria Yfeu, and today’s song.
‘Tell me that it is not a ballad of a gray, rainy, that starts from a classic acoustic guitar chord to, little by little, immerse yourself in the envelope noise caused by the distortion of electric guitars. The Devanea Song therefore between calm and chaos, between the peace sought and the inner turbulence, leaving a beautiful vocal melody along the way.
‘Tell me that he does not speak of a break, yes, but not necessarily of a romantic break. Specifically, it deals with the “friendships that break and the thousand small pains that inhabit them, of guilt and abandonment.” Within Yfeu’s second album, it will be an episode within a “discursive arc in which pain is also the beginning of a new stage of strength.”
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