The secrecy has been total and absolute, and the Carolina Durante They have been able to hide it wonderfully when Rosalía’s name sneaked into their conversation with ABC to talk about her new job, ‘Choose your own adventure’. The album, which will be published this Friday, October 25, was sent to journalists to prepare their interviews, but without including ‘Normal’, the unexpected and surprising collaboration of the Madrid band with the Catalan singer.
Carolina Durante and Rosalía are united by a family bond, due to the relationship between the sister of the author of ‘Motomami’ and one of the members of the group, the vocalist Diego Ibáñez. But there was also a previous mutual admiration, which became public when the Madrid residents performed at the WiZink Center in January 2023. In the previous days, the singer launched a tweet in which she said “this Friday there is a plan” along with a screenshot in which showed the location of the Madrid venue. Finally he came, and although he did not go on stage or do any collaboration with them, he enjoyed the show from the sound control, as the spectators around him were able to capture.
The song, a short piece of two and a half minutes that begins with Ibáñez performing several verses until the entrance of Rosalía arrives, who sings «I only remember you once a week / Your face is blurry and pixelated / You had a girlfriend who is a little strange / It’s a little strange that she looks like me,” before the two come together in a full-throated finale.
Carolina Durante’s third LP couldn’t have a more apt title: ‘Choose your own adventure’. It comes to us two years after the powerful ‘Cuatro chavales’ (Sonido Muchacho / Universal Music Spain, 2022) and five years after the seminal ‘Carolina Durante’ (Sonido Muchacho / Universal Music Spain, 2019) that turned into reality the pleasant promise we discovered in that surprising EP, ‘Necromántico’, with which they debuted.
«’Choose your own adventure’, as its name indicates, is an album that takes on new challenges and unexplored paths for the band, but keeping intact its ability to create direct songs and melodies of those that never leave you,” says the note. album press release. «Far from stagnating, Diego, Martín, Juan and Mario, those four kids, prefer to grow (and grow) to give us not only their most ambitious and mature work to date, but also one of the albums of the season. A full-fledged coming of age through a memorable handful of songs, the most recommended manual on how to grow older without losing an ounce of freshness, the perfect soundtrack for the adventure of our lives.
‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ is produced by Ali Chant, a renowned sound engineer who has worked closely with other artists such as Yard Act, Dry Cleaning, Perfume Genius and John Parish, among others. Taking care of every last detail, Carolina Durante has not hesitated to surround herself with collaborators such as multi-instrumentalist David Grubb (Novo Amor, Lowswimmer) and trumpeter Pete Judge, who has recorded his winds for names like Massive Attack, The Kooks or Maika Makovski . In addition to the digital version, ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ will be released in 3 physical formats: CD, LP and a Deluxe LP Picture Disc edition.
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