Miley Circus devoid of identity (★★ ✩✩✩) and other albums of the week

Miley Cyrus

★★ ✩✩✩

Subject Beautiful

Pop

Sony

Cyrus looks for something beautiful in its new length, since a place in the major planetary leagues of pop has it more than consolidated (in this regard the single Flowersfrom his previous album Endless Summer Vacation, He was the most downloaded from 2023). For this, it has designed an operation consisting of this album and in parallel a film about – in theory – the process of elaboration and the conceptual of the same. On the latter, the result is discouraging, because in reality it consists of a simple accumulation of structured videos in three acts and with a few spoken interludes.

Subject Beautiful It is a correct album, composed of eleven songs and also two interludes, but lacks that thrust that are the Hits of some of their themes. Of course, it is varied and entertaining although few things remain in memory and less in the heart. It starts with a soul ballad that ends with chaotic electric guitars, which follows the theme that gives name to the album and that approaches more to its sound DNA. A cut where its recognizable vocal tone with psychedelic brushstrokes, which follows some compositions of a more eighties pop such as End of the world, somewhat timeless rock of Easy Lover or ballad perfume of Give me love me or of More to lise . The rest of the album substantially reduces their interest, opting for the easy and synthetic rhythms of the dance floor, and in some of them ( Walk of Fame ) It has the intense Brittany Howard.

Matt Berninger

★★★ ✩✩

Get Sunk

Pop-rock

Concord

Some stroke is perceived from his facet as the national leader, but in general the work distils sound and even interpretive identity. An amalgam of varied sound and instrumental (orchestral in the initial Inland Oean) that affects the introspective and emotional. It does not forget its national origin but shows a more authentic Berninger.

Rocío Márquez

★★★★ ✩

Vertical anthem

FLAMENCO

Self -edited

Márquez defines it as “ritual work that spirals between the intimate and the collective”, which in practice is a glorious sample of his art to improvise and experiment. This time he does it in a hand in hand with the Spanish and electric guitar of Pedro Rojas Ogáyar on his own material and poems of Shakespeare or Friedrich Schiller. One more step in your unique pairing.

GENSAMÍ BOADA

★★★★ ✩

12

Song-pop

K

The term Delicatessen on this occasion is fair and fully justified, a small gem with a majority of the material of the Matarénse, whose ethereal voice, bright, intimate – in Catalan, Spanish and English -, house perfectly with the multi -rumantist Arnau Figueres and the Kquimi Saigi keyboardist. Hayley Reardon collaborates in one of the cuts, Constellations.