La Vida Bohème – Você
Venezuelan pop-punk…
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David Sheffieck: A propulsive delight, with a hook that’s like an explosion of color. The drums aren’t the flashiest part of the production, but they might be MVP here, providing a galloping beat that initially sounds like it’s being pounded out on trash cans before switching to tight snare hits. And the ambient shimmer of the bridge is the kind of abrupt changeup that’s both completely unexpected and utterly fitting.
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Iain Mew: What I first assumed was an introductory exclamation over the drummer warming up turns out to be the song already well underway. That’s just the way things work around here. it says, and they go on to provide enough sudden bursts of colour to keep on confounding and exciting.
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Ryo Miyauchi: A favorite part is when La Vida Bohème reach what sounds for a little while like a dead end. The band played restlessly moments before, singing the same question again and again in hopes that doing so will get them closer to a proper answer. Bound to nothing but a synth hum, they finally come face to face with what they’ve been asking all this time. And they get through that so fast like they’re avoiding any and all eye contact.
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Thomas Inskeep: This pop-punk has a lighter feel than most of its American antecedents, and a lively bounce that tells you it’s from South America (in this case, Venezuela). “Você” is also more for dancing than slamming. These Latin Grammy winners are a tight band, but their music still has room to breathe.
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Juana Giaimo: “Você” has all the elements to be a desperate protest song — the urgency in the vocals, a distorted guitar, the loud drums and straightforward lyrics like “narcos align like stars in companies and political parties”. But it’s in the bridge, when the music calm down and their lyrics aren’t maybe that obvious, when the band is most effective and reflect the desolation of the individual questioning her place in society.
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Will Adams: Bounding with an energy similar to Sakanaction, “Você” is rousing, shuffly pop-rock that both takes time to pause and flirts with losing all control.
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