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| 3.4 great | Erwann S. STAFF | August 26th 22 |
Marchita is an absolutely lovely debut, its Mexican folk sometimes being complemented with chamber jazz ornaments. Gotta say the blend of Spanish lyrics and intricate guitar playing made me think of a mix of Natalia Lafourcade and Ichiko Aoba - a lovely combo. The major thing that withholds the record is its overall minimalism - it's pretty, that's for sure, but it doesn't succeed in producing a constant flow of memorable songs.
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| 3.0 good | Gene Gol-Jonsson CONTRIBUTOR | March 18th 22 |
The most beautiful sections will transform you into a beast of pure fluff and transport you to the land Totoro inhabits, probably. But one needs to be in a particularly patient mood for that to come to fruition.
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| 3.5 great | Bedex | March 7th 22 |
A very lovely and coherent record mostly made of delicate aerial guitar + vox ballads with of course a strong Mexican flavour. The quality is fairly consistent and particularly shines through on tracks that add subtle elements behind the guitar, which is perhaps most prominent on the highlight 7. The only two weaker tracks would be 4 and the beginning of 9, which dabble into weirder things and also exacerbate some of her vocal quirks that I like a little less. The rest is all lovely. The instrumental ending of 9 is really cool with its dramatic strings contrasting with the gentle relaxed guitar, and I feel like it would have been an appropriate conclusion. Whilst the album doesn't feel long, 10 feels a bit like an unnecessary track after this, no better or worse than the bulk of what preceded it; and whilst 11 is a neat instrumental conclusion that has the merit of ending things with a special track, again I feel like 9 did that job just fine. Drops this a point, but it regains half a point because it is still a lovely debut. 3.65
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| 4.5 superb | bmelt CONTRIBUTOR | December 24th 22 |
| 4.5 superb | HugoG | December 16th 22 |
| 3.0 good | ckssr1 | August 19th 22 |
| 3.0 good | doofy | August 8th 22 |
| 3.5 great | Elynna | July 22nd 22 |
| 3.5 great | lurxy | June 22nd 22 |
| 5.0 classic | Matty CONTRIBUTOR | June 12th 22 |
| 2.5 average | jtswope | February 9th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | sncold | February 4th 22 |
| 2.5 average | Corney | February 1st 22 |
| 3.5 great | anat CONTRIBUTOR | January 26th 22 |
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