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Pop Negro

El Guincho

Pop Negro

Second album from Spanish dance-pop artist Pablo Díaz-Reixa

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7.2

Label
XL
UK Release date
13/09/2010
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  1. 9.0 |   BBC

    An album that’s among the year’s best, and that, while immediately enchanting, will take years to unravel.
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  2. 8.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    For the most part, this is a strong, intensely different follow-up to Díaz-Reixa’s debut
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  3. 8.0 |   NME

    Combining afrobeat, dub and more samba slickness than you can shake a headdress at
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  4. 8.0 |   No Ripcord

    Not dissimilar to the Afrobeat movement of bands like Vampire Weekend (but a lot more authentic)
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  5. 8.0 |   Prefix

    His synthesis of dance, island music, ‘80s synth pop, and Spanish forms while courting an indie-rock audience make him one of the few internationally capable artists in indie right now
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  6. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    The convulsive beats are enough to shake you from your slumber and move you from your present position, slouched in a computer chair, to reinstate you with some much-needed kinetic drive
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  7. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    There's a strong undercurrent of entrancing, psychedlic-pop to enjoy if you're prepared to listen hard enough
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  8. 7.0 |   Rave Magazine

    Pop Negro is hardly going to resonate with anyone in an emotional or meaningful way, but it’s a refreshing pop outing
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  9. 6.1 |   Pitchfork

    Pop Negro feels transitional. El Guincho has a clear abundance of talent; he simply didn't harness it this time around
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  10. 6.0 |   Spin

    Though the title hints at darker turns, the album never steps out of the glare
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  11. 6.0 |   musicOMH

    Often, it is all too bright and too relentlessly ecstatic to feel truly meaningful or substantia
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