Release date: 4/14/2023
Limited edition white vinyl LP with download.
INFLUENCES: RADIOHEAD, JEAN DAWSON, KEVIN ABSTRACK, BLOOD ORANGE, SUM 41, BLINK 182, DOMINIC FIKE
TRACKLIST: 01 Nube Negra 02 Déjame Vivir 03 Atrás En El Tiempo 04 No Me Importa 05 Vacío 06 Tu Puñal 07 Ratatouille (Feat. Rata.deinternet) 08 Todo Está Cambiando 09 Hey Moon 10 Pastillas Para Dormir
We have seen this before. It happened with Morrissey. It happened with Carlos Berlanga. And of course, it happened with John Lennon. Inspired minds within collective groups seek out their own paths, apart from the environment that helped them grow as artists and creators. Carlos CARABALLO uses introspection and personality where there was partying and celebration in his COLECTIVO DA SILVA. And he lays it out in an absolutely marvelous debut album, mapping out the history of pop, a treatise for atypical post-millennials, a tête à tête with his listeners. And, of course, for a project like this, he used his own name.
But let’s take a closer look, to explain what we mean. For example, since we mentioned Lennon, wasn’t there something of his BEATLES in that “Nube Negra” that opens the album and closes the storm? “Déjame Vivir” is a synthesis of the album: bedroom pop, digi-core, a bit of lounge, hyperpop and a huge, unexpected hit as big and surprising as a roller coaster. “Atrás En El Tiempo” is the soft middle, the proof that there are no tricks: it’s him, these are his melodies, his stories, his timeless choruses – it’s pop. “No Me Importa” has the perfect touch of funk, just the right breath of soul, the programming that decorates the rooms of our solitude, the chorus that makes North American R&B groups sigh. “Vacío” is folk, it’s Sufjan Stevens, it is a declaration of all of this coming straight from the heart. “Tu Puñal” is a shockingly perfect pop hit: “Nadie llega al corazón / Es de piedra” (Nobody touches the heart / It is made of stone), with textures like M83, evocation like Bon Iver, and the spirit of LA CASA AZUL. Solid as a rock. “Ratatouille” is a song that you want to listen to all night long, searching out the places where they’ll play it, with the perfect vocal harmonies by rata.deinternet. “Todo Está Cambiando”, is silken excitement – it caresses you, nocturnal and intimate. “Hey Moon” and “Pastillas Para Dormir” close the album, showing us that Carlos knows how to play with sounds, that there is a place in pop for experimenting with sound, that you can go from London to the tropics without using teletransportation, that CARABALLO is the best trip possible. Produced by Aaron Rux and CARABALLO, mixed and mastered by Carlos Díaz (in the “Cortijo Santa María de la Vega” in Granada), with the collaboration of his COLECTIVO DA SILVA bandmate, Pablo Ele. Fernández on some of the songs and that fantasy of album cover by rata.deinternet, we hope you enjoy it, because you will never be able to visit so many universes in so little time and have so much fun doing so.
