'Songs for romantic robots', Fangoria's new album, went on sale today and it is already available on the usual streaming platforms. Now it is safe to say that Fangoria has just published one of his best works in years. This does not mean that I point the accusing finger at any of his albums, but it does mean to recognize that everything that came after 'The strange journey' (2006) sounded quite repetitive to me ... fun and danceable to the maximum ... but repetitive.
The two singles that have served as an advance to the premiere of this new album, 'Polysentimental geometry' and 'Party in hell' seem to have been chosen conscientiously to show what is the step forward that 'Songs for romantic robots' was going to show us, going from that Pet Shop Boys air that they had acquired and that they had known how to exploit to the fullest, to an explosive and perfect mix of today's track busting sequences with melodies and choruses that bring us back those great firecracker hits of the 70-80 that so many Saturdays we will have dancing until the peak of the morning, singing them until we scream. The perfect example would be a question: "How would Baccara sound today?" You would have the answer in the chorus of 'Illuminated'.
'Songs for romantic robots' has not come out of a churreria record ... it has been given birth ... and that's how it has been, of course.
All the songs in this new work by Fangoria know how to show you the usual Alaska and Nacho with that step forward in production that many fans have been asking for for a long time. After the first listen, it becomes difficult to discard a song, since all, to a greater or lesser extent, manage to offer you something, be it the turn of the melody and the lyrics in a chorus or simply a chorus, but it will sound so, so good. , that you will end up listening to the complete album over and over again, from the most danceable hit ('Will to resist', 'Polysentmental geometry,' Party in hell ') to the darkest song (' Delusions of a carded android ',' The procession goes inside').
It is time to applaud the quality of the production of these 'Songs for romantic robots'. I don't know if Nacho and Alaska have been more inspired or if they just wanted to publish these songs, but there is no song that sounds sloppy or done in five minutes.