With three albums, a split with Anime Rooms and two EPs under his belt, Primo now returns with his fourth studio album, entitled «Un dolor cotidiano». An album in which Naz Aparicio (Shonen Bat, Have Fun) speaks to us in the first person about the irreparable, about how all the violence and misery we assimilate on a daily basis transforms us.
In «Un dolor cotidiano», the confessional intimacy of Primo’s performances reaches heights of sensitivity never before achieved by the Malaga-born author, whose compositional instinct captures and transmits itself in a kind of necessary song that transcends the delicacy of the arrangements and stirs up his own pieces. A musical aura, we might say, that sounds and resonates on the surface, revealing a balance that masterfully reconciles emotional extravagance and pop conciseness. Naz’s voice embraces you from the very first note—sometimes soothing, sometimes vulnerable and raw—and imprints itself on your subconscious without you seeing it coming, transcending the poetic spectrum of formality to leave truth within us.
The album opens with «La cuerda roja». A beautiful song about loneliness, followed by «La playa», where we drink vermouth and suddenly fall deeply in love… before being swept away by nostalgia to those days of childhood, when we were little girls and boys, that is, to «Domingo». This song is complemented by «Todos los santos», a portrait of the Spain of our elders (when straying from the norm was an unforgivable offence). Finally, Primo closes side A with a song dedicated to his admired and good friend, Conrado Isasa. Side B begins with the lysergic intoxication of «Otra copa», followed by «Pájaro negro», where we reflect on the lack of self-esteem and the lack of control over the consequences of our actions. It is in «Quizás mañana» that we see the rain from the sofa, with our love and our kitten, while «Recuerdo recordarte» begins to play and then, as if nothing had happened, we arrive at «Rosario». A heartfelt tribute to those people who put absolutely everything first in order to fight, to exercise and to share a gesture of solidarity in the midst of this fascist and atrocious capitalism in which we survive. Free Palestine, eat the rich.
