A sensation if we have our way (and we will!).
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Iain Mew: The weighty chunks of synth bear a resemblance to Austra’s “Beat and the Pulse” and set “Cada Vez Mas Cerca” up like it’s going to be something similarly dark. In fact, the rest of the song skates over that darkness barely touching it, pirouetting and pausing occasionally to fire off some lasers and a fragment of “Radio Gaga.” Yeah, it’s silly, but why question moves that come off as joyfully as these?
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Alfred Soto: The chilly sequencers melt the second Magdalena and a synthesizer squabble over which high notes they should harmonize with. Unlike many electronic anthems which emphasize the narrator’s physical and emotional distance, this one wants to wetly sing in your ear.
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Edward Okulicz: I’ve never met a “Fade to Grey” cousin I didn’t like, and Maria Magdalena sings this like she’s not sure if it’s symphonic disco or someone playing around with settings on a cheap electric piano. The mismatch works, though, with her voice high and ethereal and the bass earthy and warm.
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Brad Shoup: There’s a carnivalesque melodic bent to the opening line, something Gwen Stefani might tend toward. MM is in the same range, but without the… let’s say individuation. There’s a max poignance beyond which repeating the title doesn’t add, but she’s going there anyway. It’s those chill synthsheets she hangs at the end that truly transport.
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Anthony Easton: The intro, which is just nostalgic enough to remind one of the disco, and refute the cult of the new, transitions into a vocal that rides above it. It’s like a glittery dolphin on an ocean of molten cheddar. The use of disco lasers, perhaps the subtlest in history, suggests the dolphin is bringing sailors back to the land.
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Jonathan Bogart: Even five years ago those percussive strikes would have dredged up the word “electroclash,” but if anything the newest Chilean indie-electro sensation is going back to mutant-disco roots, if not to the roots of all electronic pop; those high tones are unmistakably Summery.
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Katherine St Asaph: This is what I wish Kate Boy sounded like.
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