vladislavradak

A brilliant, orchestra-sounding like yet minimalistic debut. It is festive, it is protestive. It is inspiring and melodic, it is textured and tamed. You have everything there: from minimalistic melodies like in "you told us it was hard..." to dance anthems like ‘El Cielo No Es De Nadie’. Influences are wide: Kraftwerk, m83, Daft Punk, but Ela Minus stays original and honest with her topics, voice and style. Nothing is impossible here.

A sophomore publishing of Clap! Clap! is an energetic, ambitious project with a lot of texture but not enough energy to keep me often coming back. With interesting African samples, it gives it perspective, but it doesn't expand on the genre like I expected to.

Just coming back over and over to this album over the last few years. It is simply getting better, it has a really strong opening and it does not let you go. It is intriguing, filmic, echoing, somehow great for endless nights. It is getting better if you don't compare it to the previous albums of the bend.

On the first listen it has apperent value to be instant underground hipster classic. Everything is there - Youruba paraphernalia, lofi beats and lyrical acrobatics. On the other side, this album suffers from watering it down to appeal to global (western) masses, sometimes suffocating the message of loss, Cuban childhood and growing up far from home