If you take the grapes and know that your album has managed to place itself at the top of the lists of the best of the year in Catalonia and Spain, if you look back while the bells ring and you can list awards and recognitions from the portals and most prestigious magazines and general newspapers, your year has gone well. This is how satisfied Clara Viñals must have felt these holidays, as she has seen how La boca aigua (Primavera Labels), her fourth album, consolidated Renaldo
Viñals and company will be able to extend this end of the year for a few weeks with such a good taste in their mouths: they will present the successful album next Thursday at the Apolo room, which will be the third time for the Barcelona public after the May concert at the Palau Robert —with the album fresh out of the oven— and the one from the Cruïlla festival in July. They will close their autumn-winter tour on February 2 in Madrid, a fact that, although not new, is always a remarkable event for any artist who expresses himself solely and exclusively in Catalan. In the western variant of Lleida, to be even more precise.
The satisfaction must be double because the singer and composer from Ilerda already declared, during the promotion of the album, that La boca aigua was the work that best represents her in her way of understanding music. He also explained to La Vanguardia that, following in the footsteps of the previous L'amor fa calor, he constructed the nine songs—the album lasts just over 20 minutes—almost alone in a slow-burn process in front of the computer, and that only in one Last phase he relied on the help of his partner Hugo Alarcón or different producers such as Innercut, Joan Borràs or Hidrogenesse. Vinyals was clear that he wanted a continuous sound and that explains the notable presence of electronics and dance rhythms, although this time with more variety: touches of genres such as hip-hop, reggaeton, favela funk or the unclassifiable sound of Eighties video game by Encaix.
The rest of the formula is known: Viñals' soft voice whispers some lyrics with the cat in the bag. For now they seem light and pleasant (and there are those too), but many hide darker feelings, always around the most universal theme of the story: love.
“I have found my personality in singing the way I speak,” she herself pointed out in the summer. And it seems that the very personal naturalness that it emanates has managed to convince everyone in 2023.
