‘it’s much too mellow to achieve anything’
Alex Gray is a Biomedical Science student at Newcastle University
Before knowing anything:
I can appreciate this for what it is, but I can’t really see how it would appeal to anyone to sit down and listen to it. I think because I really enjoy folk music in general, this kind of music sounds great, but it’s not the kind of folk music I enjoy listening to. It’s not upbeat like Flook (my favourite band) and doesn’t have much variation in it either. I suppose, like the other songs I’ve heard, it’s political? But I don’t know how or why this would have any effect – it’s much too mellow to achieve anything and I also can’t see it being particularly popular in Latin America. The more I think about it, the more I think it has an early 2000s kind of sound, I don’t know why I’m thinking that… I just am?
Before knowing anything:
I am completely shocked with all of the information you’ve just given me. Spanish? Popular? Early 2000s? Was I completely right about everything?! No. But almost everything. I’m surprised it’s so popular because it just doesn’t seem like the kind of music that would be, particularly in the early 2000s as English bands were really at the forefront of EVERYTHING during that time. It sounds to me as if Mara Aranda created a band without the intent of it being anything but experimental, to explore the sounds that she enjoyed… But accidentally found critical acclaim… I hate when that happens, don’t you?