Comando Suzie – Corazón O Plomo (Album – El Genio Equivocado)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop.
Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl.
Background/Info: Comando Suzie is a Spanish formation set up in 2006 and driven by Raúl López and Eva Grace. They already released several productions on very different labels and are now back on track with their latest opus “Corazón O Plomo” (translated “Heart Or Lead”).
Content: The sound of this work is clearly driven by a rather sweet and slow Electro-Pop formula featuring Spanish vocals. Most of the songs are sung by Raúl López and are produced in a rather half spoken, half sung way. Eva Grace injected a sensual- and graceful touch to the work. I also noticed a few words in French. Some parts of the album are accentuated by a melodic side and an emotional sphere.
+ + + : Comando Suzie clearly try to compose a very own sound; something you can’t compare to established bands and or Electro-Pop standards. The Spanish vocals reinforce this feeling. I especially like the retro elements running through the album while the female vocals have something magic compared to the male ones.
– – – : I can’t say the music is not worked out, but the global production remains a bit too linear and flat, which also comes through with the male vocals. A bit more passion would be a true bonus.
Conclusion: The ideas running through this album are cool, but the way it has been accomplished could be better. There’s more inside this album than what comes out.
Best songs: “Huele A Mirra”, “Aldebarán”.
Rate: (6).
Artist: www.facebook.com/comandosuzie
Label: www.elgenioequivocado.com / www.facebook.com/elgenioequivocado
About Comando Suzie
Comando Suzie is a Spanish electro-pop project founded in 2006 by Raúl López and based in Terrassa, near Barcelona, according to Discogs, which lists Eva Grace, Demian Recio of Ô Paradis and Èric Palaudàries as current members and Marcos Gimeno and Ella as former members. The debut album “Pobres Chavales” and the 7″ “El Pequeño Tamborilero / Pergamino” appeared on Punch Records in 2007, followed by “El Hombre Sentimental” (Autoreverse, 2010), “Hipermejores” (Autoreverse / Disques de Lapin, 2013), the 7″ “Chica Playmobil” (La Nébuleuse Pourpre, 2013), the compilation “Dios Salve Al Tecnopop” and the 12″ EP “Principios Y Salidas” (both Nøvak, 2016) and “La Nueva Guardia” (Nøvak, 2018).
“Corazón O Plomo” was released by El Genio Equivocado on 18 December 2020, as a download, on CD and on vinyl. The label presents it as the fourth LP and as a sequel to “El Hombre Sentimental”, and cites La Mode, Front 242, Dinarama, Cohen, Gainsbourg and Hazlewood among López’s references. The ten tracks are “Espigón”, “Nubecita Y Tormenta”, “Huele A Mirra”, “Aldebarán”, “Belleza Real”, “En La Frente”, “Saltan Chispas”, “Aviones”, “Y Todo Saldrá Bien” and “Joie De Vivre”. López wrote the music and lyrics and sang, played synthesizers and programmed; Eva Grace added backing vocals and synthesizers and Demian Recio bass, synthesizers, programming and backing vocals. Aloma Ruiz Boada of Current 93 played violin on “Saltan Chispas”, Géraldine Guyon Labadie sang the French lines on “En La Frente” and Santi Capote of Ellos played guitar and synthesizer on “Nubecita Y Tormenta” and mixed and mastered the album at The Punch in Terrassa. The album was recorded in 2019 in Barcelona, Terrassa and Centelles; Mònica de Miguel took the cover photograph.
The 12″ mini-album “Los Últimos Golpes” followed on El Genio Equivocado in 2023. “Corazón O Plomo” is the project’s only Side-Line review to date.
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