Here is a roundup of reviews for R. Mendoza’s latest album, “Si Me Duermo... choco”. Textura.org, writes that “[t]hroughout this rather distinctive album, Mendoza assembles layer upon layer in the tracks, with vocals, beats, electronics, guitars, and bass built into immense atmospheric structures that exemplify the loop-based repetition associated with dance music.” URB thinks the recording falls short and that the album “could have been influential to our sonic understanding, colliding with our own interpretation of dreams as an encounter of life-altering ramifications, all the while remaining entertaining and original.” The Aussies at Cyclic Defrost are more impressed, writing that “[i]f a sonic encapsulation of a lucid dream could be constructed it is here, masking highly developed technical prowess in a coat of remembrance and dreamlike intonation, updating the waking dream for the listener. Awakening to a dreamlike sound is a kind of paradox and to a casual listener it may seem that the conjunction of sound worlds woven together here are at least a contradiction, if not a riddle or paradox, but the beauty is held within the contradiction of form”. Wow!. Finally, the Frenchies at Autres Directions think that R. Mendoza has constructed a “singular electro-shoegaze” album. Do I need to remind you that the CD is available through DARLA?.

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