Latin Grammy Week gets better than this Mexican act, we promise..
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Juana Giaimo: Today we learnt that putting your surname in the name of the band isn’t a guarantee of a personal and unique sound.
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Alfred Soto: This sibling trio plays their own instruments and devise a novel twist on the usual forget-me-nots, string section be damned.
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Jonathan Bogart: Are all the dramatic string parts crashing about meant to distract us from what a limited voice Angela Vázquez has? It doesn’t really work.
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Edward Okulicz: Vázquez Sounds certainly do have an amiable, if well-worn, sound, but perhaps having made their name doing covers, they’re not writing or being given top-shelf originals. “En Mi, No en Ti” takes three minutes to work out that its lovely, chiming guitars and weary chorus are inert without a drumbeat. After hearing how much the song improves in its last minute, you wish the whole thing were like that.
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Iain Mew: Checking out their YouTube account reveals that their cover versions live down to their unremarkable song choices, the group bringing very little to them. This is an improvement in that it at least hints at an identity, even if it is a saccharine one.
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Brad Shoup: There’s a wonderful chordal stabilization that happens midway through the chorus: a kind of hunching the shoulders. It fortifies against the cymbal wash and those ponderous plinks. It makes this a winning ballad.
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Will Adams: A soppy ballad with an only-okay singer at the helm. The nicest thing I can say is that it’s not Alyssa Reid.
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