Three separate years Motomami (2022) Lux (2025)enough time to create an album with almost countless expansions that quickly captured the opinion of national and international critics. Joshua Baron, classical music and dance editor at New York Timesis precisely one of the critics who He talked about what’s new in Rosalia. Being an expert in a genre far from pop and commercial, the categories that surround the Spanish artist, perfectly explain the sense in which the Catalan’s fourth studio album was released on November 7.
Berghainthe first single that served as a preview before the album’s release, really raised expectations. Did Rosalia turn to classical music? It’s aesthetic, and also bright, and soulful on the cover and the video… I pretty much expected what was coming wasn’t Rosalia Saoko or Chicken Teriyaki. Once the movie “Lux” was released, this hypothesis was confirmed. This is what led to American media talk about “operatic overtones” Present on the album with the most dedicated critic.
Lux review in the New York Times
In his review, Barron highlights the single Berghain As the first “large-scale advertisement”. The expert highlights the full orchestra, choir and color sounds that lead him to this place Lux As a “symphonic and operatic” work.. In fact, the specialist declares that in the single “the virtuoso violin solo may sound taken directly from Vivaldi’s ‘The Four Seasons’.”
This sense of classicism is found in the eighteen songs that make up their fourth album that expand “hitting and building like an avalanche of sound and feel,” according to Baron. To understand this approach, it is worth highlighting this, as the expert does Lux It was recorded with the London Symphony Orchestradirected by Daniel Bjarnason and arranged by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw.
Is “Lux” really classical music?
“These art forms are so open that trying to say what they are and what they are not is almost a waste of time.”Baron hardly realizes this, since for the connoisseur symphony and opera are at their simplest level “a means of expression, through instruments or voice, that transcends language.”
However, the critic New York Times He points to that “It would not be accurate to say that Rosalia wrote a modern symphony. Nor is an opera theatrical in nature.”. In this sense, Baron highlights that in this case, the Catalan artist uses both forms to convey intense volume and emotion. But, After all, he made a pop album on a big budget“.
However, the expert understands that Rosalía had “serious” musical training with mastery of flamenco, “a chameleon soprano, brilliant and focused on her high, but dark, register in the bass.” However, expert New York Times He concludes that the Spanish artist “is having a good time. Classical music and opera are clearly not her home. But at Lux, they are her playground.”
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