"With slow songs from the heart and thrashing experiments that deconstruct and glitch flamenco, reggaeton, rap, and breakbeat, the collective has gained a following in Spain's underground and even rubbed shoulders with its mainstream."
"El Niño Bola, co-produced with Roy Borland as the pair channeled Suicide and Arthur Russell, is mostly about dissatisfaction, in love and otherwise. "CdP" and opener "The Sound" seemingly quote the Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want" without the satisfaction of getting what you need."
"The emotion here, teetering between overwrought and genuinely moving, comes filtered through jangling guitar, heavy reverb, and vocoder. MORI's voice, naturally scraggly and deep, is distorted to hell all over the album, particularly on the piano-accented "Ready for Life.""
MORI, an artist from the Spanish experimental label Rusia-IDK, releases his solo debut El Niño Bola, co-produced with Roy Borland. The album channels influences from Suicide and Arthur Russell, exploring themes of dissatisfaction in love and life. Featuring jangling guitars, heavy reverb, and vocoder-processed vocals, the record adopts a lo-fi aesthetic reminiscent of an old radio in a spaghetti Western cantina. Songs like "CdP" and "The Sound" evoke the Rolling Stones without delivering satisfaction. MORI's naturally deep voice undergoes significant distortion throughout, particularly on piano-accented tracks like "Ready for Life," creating an emotionally complex sound that oscillates between overwrought and genuinely moving.
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