El Naval

Mus
Darla Records
General | Aug 2002

Reviews

Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2002-08-25
(Pronounced « moose », means mouse) Awesome. Chill, lush beautiful spaciness from this duo from Spain. I believe they are from/singing in one of many dialects spoken in that part of the world, maybe Basque, but its definitely not Spanish or Catalan. Really chill and dreamy stuff mostly, spacey acoustic guits and piano, some strings/synth. Drum kit appears occasionally to change the tone drastically. Very big sounding, but not blatant reverb, like recorded in a big castle. Unedited female vocs are subdued and breathy a lot of the time. Like laying in a meadow in the summer with butterflies about and the first lull of vicodin coming on.

1) waltzy spacey folky with breathy quiet vocs, acous guit, ambient synth, strings
2) simple piano + vocs
3) guit arpeggios + simple piano gets the treatment in the very end, instrumental
4) drum kit, almost a straight pop song, different from rest, still dreamy though
5) minimal piano intro, digital reverb noise treatments, turns experimental and ambient looping with dreamy synth sounds etc, instrumental
6) loud overdriven rock undercurrent w/ same dreamy vocal and guit elements
7) slow downtempo chill dream
8) whispered vocs + guit arpeggio minimalism
9) quiet piano arpeggio and glock + vocs, minor tone
10) chill brushed waltzy drum beat, whispered vocs, pretty swingy guit work, Quaalude music

Recent airplay

Al Oeste De La Divisoria
15 MIles til SundaySep 12, 2003
Sacramento
Off the PathMay 14, 2003
Quien Bien Te Quier, Caseria
Lick My Moody Guitar ShowOct 30, 2002
Al Debalu
Lick My Moody Guitar ShowOct 16, 2002
Cuesta
Brownian MotionSep 18, 2002
Rencor
Come When I WhistleSep 16, 2002

Charting

2002-09-02 — 2002-11-04
Week EndingAirplays
Nov 3 2
Oct 20 1
Sep 22 2
Sep 15 1

Track listing

1. Al Debalu
2. Al Oeste De La Divisoria
3. Sacramento
4. Embalses Y Rios
5. Caseria
6. Cuesta
7. Casi Ensin Zarrar Los Gueyos
8. Quien Bien Te Quier
9. Rencor
10. Encofraos