The Singles Jukebox

Feel the breeze…

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Cassy Gress: Julieta Venegas, in comparison to Natalia Lafourcade and Carla Morrison, with whom I will always associate her because I first heard all three of them at around the same time, has by far the songs that I associate most with sitting in a windowsill on a quiet, sunny day, lazily strumming a guitar and singing to herself. This isn’t quite as perfectly breezy as some of her other work, but her voice still has that same quality to it. Her lover’s warmth is like a veil, overlaid on everything dark and closed in the world and in her life and reanimating it, and those background accordions and organs do the same thing here.
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Anthony Easton: Slower than it seems on first listen, and though it has the idea of catchiness down, it is a little too elegant to function as a suitable infection vector. 
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Leonel Manzanares de la Rosa: Julieta Venegas’ influence in today’s Latin female singer-songwriters is just incalculable; everyone from Mexican singers Natalia, Ximena and Carla to new faces like Mon Laferte and even Puerto Rico’s iLe owe her a great debt, both stylistically and in terms of opportunity. Sadly, right after Sí, the 2003 release that took her to international stardom, she’s been gradually dismissing some of the elements that made her brand of song interesting in the first place — especially, the minor-key gloom, the existential lyrics and her commitment to the Tijuana regional sound. “Tu Calor” is cute, straightforward semi-acoustic pop, perhaps too straightforward for its own good. Her signature accordion is still there, but the Norteño flavour that characterized some of Julieta’s most successful singles is just gone. 
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Alfred Soto: Julieta Venegas’ chalky voice is a grabber, and the accordion adds a note of rue. But I can’t account for the enervated mood.
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Brad Shoup: It lilts, but it’s not breezy. It feels like an Adult Alternative Trojan horse, where the sensuality comes cloaked in chunky strumming and the synth/accordion handoff. 
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Edward Okulicz: Oh, those moody MOR pop organs say longing, possibly while long hair wafts in the breeze, but the accordion belies as it evokes assured touching, and the lyrics are little moments of consummation, talking about heat and heartbeats and the like. Venegas gives the package an inviting performance.
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Juana Giaimo: When you think of songs about meeting someone, passion and excitement come to your mind. But instead of focusing in a specific romantic moment full of adrenaline, Julieta Venegas explores the presence of a new feeling in your everyday life. Her voice is tender and when she sings “I feel your warmth when I’m walking down the streets,” you can indeed picture her with her head on the clouds as she wanders aimlessly. However, there is a bittersweet element too, since this is also a song about rediscovering the world after a long and grey winter — especially if you have listened to her previous album, the melancholic Los momentos. In “Tu Calor,” she accepts that we sometimes need a hand to get through hard times, to erase the shadows and reanimate us. Her troubles are now gone, her mind is clear and she can tell us to “forget what happened.” As she leaves us mumbling along to her dreamy accordion, I can also feel her own warmth curing me. 
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