The Linn Youki Project – #04 CD

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Let's have fun. One of the great maxims of popular music, which should be for everyone, sometimes even in a deeper way than we are going to make art. That maxim is what Linn Youki have decided to take to the ultimate consequences in their long-awaited fourth record release. Not that they were previously overly twisted or dark or serious, they have always been characterized by an open-mindedness and a lack of complexes out of the ordinary. But in #04, creative freedom reaches its maximum splendor. And, perhaps for the first time, we find ourselves with an album made without the slightest hint of modesty, not designed to please anyone but generated in a moment of vital splendor by a group of friends who close the premises to have fun, to laugh , to leave behind the hardships of daily jobs, the artistic pressures and the gray seriousness that surrounds the day-to-day life of so many young people from Barcelona. As is already the house brand, #04 is made up of curious and cheeky samplers, dressed with real and virtual instruments, without the border between the organic and the cybernetic being noticed, with the added incentive that, for the first time, great part of the voices are sung, real, by the musicians themselves. They still (since their debut album) sound like a cartoon. Perhaps that is its most intrinsic reason for being; music that could have been made by and for children, although performed and arranged with a maturity typical of someone who perfectly masters the most modern production techniques. But the fantastic ingenuity of their sound reaches a level of originality that makes them really unique and great. No one, absolutely no one sounds like them. In addition, the role of Marco Morgione, Xavi Caparrós and Jordi Pérez as musicians is inseparably mixed with their role as producers; recording and mixing with a computer in their premises, in their homes, in any corner with a good natural reverberation, allows them to have all the creative power in their hands, and that further favors their abstraction from the rest of the world. And, as the icing on the cake, they go to another home studio, that of the great Joan Miquel Oliver (Antònia Font) to finish off an album that sounds as powerful as it is subtle.