Rosalía's fourth album LUX is an avant-garde classical pop record combining orchestral arrangements, multilingual lyrics, and themes of genre, romance, and religion.
Estrada's music moves from wordless sublimity through sorrow to simmering anger, using orchestral arrangements and steady motion to reveal emotional transformation.
"My job at that moment is to conjure a small dust devil of unreality around us, to pull it up out of a sticky, shiny carpet and flappy, beer-soaked speaker cones," she writes. "I have to make it out of words and sounds and looks."
Phantom Island showcases the Australian sextet's ongoing experimentation, juxtaposing traditional orchestral sounds with their psychedelic rock roots, leading to a diverse and sometimes conflicting musical experience.