El Guincho – Fata Morgana

You have to feel for El Guincho. As good as his album, Alegranza, may be, this could be one of the most unfortunate cases of bad timing in recent times. Coming hot on the heels of the undisputably brilliant Peson Pitch by Panda Bear, the comparisons were both inevitable and unenviable.

There are similarities, of course, but hailing from the Canary Islands by way of Barcelona, the sound here is appropriately tropical, the loops more tangible (in some cases even assuredly repetitive), giving El Guincho (Pablo Díaz-Reixa) a messier dynamic all his own.

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