Lux, by Rosalia: an audacious left turn from a pop auteur.

Rosalia, Lux

On La Fama , the Weeknd-featuring lead single from her radical last album, 2022’s Motomami , Rosalia was already questioning her relationship with pop stardom. “Duermo con ella, pero nunca me la voy a casar” (“I’ll sleep with her, but never marry her”), she sang warily. Her new album Lux puts a spear in the point’s side. This is the pop star as ascetic, devoted to her art like a believer devoted to God.

By any means, Lux is intense. It’s an epic that shows its labour. Three years in the making, the album finds the Spanish artist singing in 13 languages including Catalan, Arabic, Ukrainian, Sicilian, and Japanese, and recording with the London Symphony Orchestra in pieces composed alongside Pulitzer Prize-wi

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