‘I need stimuli’ is the new album by La Milagrosa that will be published tomorrow

After a debut in long format as solid and juicy as it was “It doesn’t hurt anymore” (25), The Miraculous He returns to the scene only a year and a half later to certify those positive sensations. A return materialized in a breakthrough album, which relegates several of those rules included in the premiere to the background in order, using a boldness not so common in more or less incipient groups, to prove that their proposal has an important journey. The Madrid combo is thus confirmed as one of the indispensable names within that new batch of national bands that seek depth while moving away from innocuous and easy pop, with a dark, acidic and conscientiously worked album that, in any case and without bending to any concession, at the same time harbors considerable potential with which to aspire to general acceptance.

It is the valuable quality that the quartet manages, made available here for a total of fifteen songs that work to form what appears to be a global and seamless work; an album with a global discourse and identity, apart from that supposedly current trend that points to the single as a tool of expression. “I need encouragement” It moves between dark indie-pop-rock, traces of post-punk and highly suggestive atmospheres, without leaving aside certain synthetic electronic finishes. The result is a work enriched with meaning and talent, which is supported and definitively defined by the well-measured production by Alex Headford. An album with a very successful sound that does not neglect the coarse grain, a certain rawness and a realism that, in addition to favoring the group, seems necessary in a scene tending towards a certain concrete and standardized sound.

Compositions in which generous doses of hopelessness and boredom cross a lyric that could well belong to an entire demographic stratum (“So boring”, “Blue light”the magnificent “as if nothing had happened”, “CHEW” and that killer bass line, “(Sign here)”, “EiA”the disarming “I just want to sleep and disappear”). A route in which there is also a good dose of self-criticism (“You’re not in your prime”, “I need encouragement!!!!”) or even a halo of hope (“Leftovers to eat”, “It’s complicated” with some echoes of The Cure that, in reality, fly over a good part of the album, “The summers before”). “I need encouragement” In short, it looks like an important step forward, especially daring and brave. Something not so common for a second album that empowers the combo, along with names like Alcalá Norte or La Paloma, as the generational spearhead of the scene.