""She sings in more than a dozen languages!" "She's working with the London Symphony Orchestra, and also Bjork, and did you know that Caroline Shaw helped with arrangements?!" A work rich in footnotes, LUX spills over with lore about female saints, enhanced by efforts to translate, unpack and otherwise reckon with it. LUX is a work of high art, sure. But it's also frequently, boldly, at times breathtakingly beautiful a work of craft and care, empathy and deep emotion."
""Reliquia" mutates from an orchestral piece into an electro-pop reverie, with a tear-jerking piano interlude along the way, and its vocal remains pristine enough to induce gasps. That's just one song among 18. Stephen Thompson LUX transcends genre. Taking the full measure of what Rosalia pulls off on LUX is like trying to solve a single-line logic puzzle: Connect opera to maximalist pop to flamenco to electronica to Baroque orchestral music to rap (and much more) without lifting your pen or crossin"
Rosalía's LUX emerged late in the year and quickly unified many listeners with its ambitious scope and beauty. The album blends opera, maximalist pop, flamenco, electronica, Baroque orchestral music, rap and more into a single cohesive work. Collaborations include the London Symphony Orchestra, Björk, and arranger Caroline Shaw. LUX contains 18 tracks that move between orchestral passages and electro-pop reveries; "Reliquia" shifts from orchestra to electro-pop with a tear-jerking piano interlude and pristine vocals. The record is simultaneously high art and emotionally affecting, earning placement on numerous year-end top-ten lists.
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