Album of the Month : July 1999
Migala (E) :
" Asi duele un verano " ( Acuarela )
Better late than never ! After nearly a year in our playlist, going up and down, flirting with the top ( N°2 in December 1998 ) or vanishing without trace ( July 1999 ), MIGALA's second album finally hits N°1, in order to rightly celebrate its official release in France.
Coming from the Madrid area and signed on the same label that already gave us the outstanding Sr. CHINARRO, MIGALA is more an artistic collective than a real band insofar as the line-up changes depending on the project they're working on. On their acclaimed and warmly recommended debut album " Diciembre, 3 A.M." ( '97 ), MIGALA paid their dues to their masters ( Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Lou Reed, The Tindersticks, the whole " Slow-core " crew... ) through a variety of lengthy, acoustic, outrageously romantic songs, and short adventurous instrumental pieces. With more or less the same recipe, " Asi duele un verano " is better though. Two reasons for this: one is that the band's influences, now finely blended all together, are far less obvious than before. The other is due to the choice of a main topic ( The ocean , faraway expeditions, saudade... ) which gives to the album a real consistency, a perfect harmony that wasn't quite acquired on MIGALA's debut.
Therefore, it's no use to resist anymore: the music flows effortlessly, each song melting into another, and nothing can stops its stunning emotional and evocative power: R.L. Stevenson, Dutch Harbor, Corto Maltese, Moonfleet, Lofoten Islands, Herman Melville, To Have And Have Not, Newfound-land... It's the whole maritime imagery that comes to mind when listening to these timeless songs.
No need of Hardware for this: MIGALA have just invented the Direct-to-brain CD-Extra.
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