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ROSALÍA — “LUX”

“LUX” is not an album that merely borrows from the language of religion. It is an album that understands why religion exists in the first place: because ordinary language eventually fails before longing, terror, beauty, guilt, surrender, and desire.

Its sacredness is not decorative. This is not spirituality used as mood, aesthetic, or costume. The religious dimension is built into the structure of the record itself. “LUX” moves ... read more