Rosalía - LUX

[bpmMonkey 6,485]

2 minutes ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

If you’re listening on Spotify, there’s a translate button in the lyric window at the bottom of the screen! (Shoutout to @Morphine Princefor clocking this the other day)

Yesss. I also just found it on AM a bit ago. The future truly is now, just as Kim proclaimed so many moons ago 

[Glomer 707]

The album is beautiful and I'll probably listen to it a lot but, maybe it's because I'm a Bjork stan, Berghain is such an standout for me... I was hoping the album would be more like that, so I can't help but feel a little bit disappointed even though what we got is heavenly.

 

[Stefanotta 1,350]

God! This was angelic! What a experience!

[Morphine Prince 107,469]

Highest rated album of the year on Metacritic btw 

[Anderson123 39,282]

Beautiful album from start to finish. I gave it a listen last night before bed and another one today. Very happy Rosalía is doing this music right now because damn she has the VOCALS for this and it’s a great piece of music. 

Suddenly I feel like Berghain being the loudest and most energetic part of the album made me think there would be more like this. Didn’t expect it to be so chill from start to finish. 

My favorites right now: Berghain, Mio Cristo and De Madrugá. 

Need to give this a couple more listens  , can’t tell the rest of the songs apart.

 

[Stefanotta 1,350]

All vinyls sold out on her store, thank god I menaged to get one on time

[StrawberryBlond 14,997]

Just finished listening a short while ago and was most impressed. I haven't listened to her debut, liked her second album and thought Motomami was an absolute mess of an experiment that didn't work. So I am overjoyed to see her turn out this, a beautiful tour de force. Didn't know she was trained in opera, truly angelic in parts. To sing in 13 languages is crazy work and I appreciated how all the lyric videos were completely translated as I feared I wouldn't be able to get a comprehensive translation especially so early after release. It made listening to it an absolute breeze.

My only real criticism is that I didn't release until I was 12 tracks in that 3 tracks are physical release exclusives, which means you have to be a huge fan to hear the album in its true conception which doesn't seem fair. And because it's part of the album's timeline, it feels like we as casual listeners are getting an incomplete experience and some tracks are longer or shorter on the physical. But what I can hear is so good that it's only minimal annoyance. There were very occasional tracks like Reliquia and La Perla that weren't on the level but they were mercifully rare.

My top tier faves are Porcelana, Mio Cristo Piange Diamanti, Berghain, La Rumba de Perdon, Memoria and Magnolias.  It's rare for me to rate an album's tracks so consistently high when it's not an album by one of my faves, but this is a rare exception. I'd say it's a solid 4/5 or 8.0/10, so hard for one of my non-faves to do. How rare it is to see that the critics are actually not far off this time.

On 11/7/2025 at 10:11 AM, bpmMonkey said:

Imagine if I didn't failed that one semester Spanish I took in Uni 🥲

All the official lyric videos are on YouTube and just turn on subtitles and it'll automatically translate for you. I listened to the entire album this way and it couldn't have been easier to read and listen to and I say that as someone who can only listen to foreign songs if they're translated as I cannot accurately judge the music if I can't understand it. She's not only singing in Spanish but 12 other languages, so you'd need a translation anyway. 

[Morphine Prince 107,469]

Nearly a week later and still not over this album....