Lido Pimienta - La Papessa

Lido Pimienta - La PapessaVinyl LP pressing. While Toronto based, Colombian born musician artist Lido Pimienta's debut Color (2010) was an optimistic foray into pop music, 2016's La Papessa digs deeper, covering heavy subject matter, drowned in infectious, layered beats. Here, Pimienta has found her footing as an independent artist: as a woman, and as a mother moving to the "big city" (Toronto) with her young son, all the while redefining the notion of what a pop Latina artist

public perception

and repackaged by the band's longtime artist Paul Romano

And while their songs often reveal certain painful truths

Like the swirling symbol adorning the cover

as measured on the dancefloor

Double picture disc vinyl LP pressing

that Mackenzie Scott-who has spent the 2010s making boundary-pushing pop music under her Torres moniker-has chosen to call her fourth album

Rather the band continuously seeks and executes with more compulsive complexity

"One of my favorite things about these songs is the intimacy of them

Harumi Ohzora's 'Viva' first released in 1983

The vinyl re-issue is augmented by 'Wings Of Fire'

Green to Gold is the much anticipated new album from New York based