Alegranza! does two things that often appear separately in records you fall in love with, but rarely together: On the one hand, it reminds you of so much other music you love, and on the other, it sounds little like any of them. Spanish artist El Guincho (real name: Pablo Díaz-Reixa) makes music from Spanish chanting, thudding tribal rhythms, ghostly harmonies, and the bits and pieces of a thousand as yet unwritten pop songs. It's a combination that won't be appearing in any pop how to guides any time soon. The impressive and probably unwittingly fashionable source material, Afrobeat, dub, Tropicália, and early rock'n'roll, and the irresistibility of these songs can only briefly obscure the fact that no one else is really making music quite like this.
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