From Unhealthy Bunny’s history-making masterpiece to Silvana Estrada’s heartfelt debut, this is the music that blew us away in 2022
The concept of style appeared extra slippery than ever in 2022, significantly amongst Spanish-speaking artists, who bashed obstacles to bits and experimented freely throughout all kinds of sounds and kinds. Making music with such abandon led to a number of tasks that felt like nothing else on the market: Lucrecia Dalt’s ¡Ay!, wealthy and redolent of the previous; Mabe Fratti’s tense and tender Se Ve Desde Aquí; and Mediopicky’s self-titled manufacturing grasp class have been just some gems that stood out and supplied a glance into the expansive imaginations of rising abilities throughout the globe. Within the pop world, artists like Becky G and Francisca Valenzuela wrote and recorded with simply as a lot inventiveness, whereas musica Mexicana continued to have an enormous 12 months, with stars like Grupo Firme and Eslabon Armado refusing to stay to 1 lane.
And naturally, that limitless angle additionally performed a job on the 2 albums that have been ubiquitous in 2022: Rosalía’s hyper-syncretic Motomami and Unhealthy Bunny’s record-defying Un Verano sin Ti. Rosalía confirmed what occurs when an artist refuses to compromise their imaginative and prescient, whereas Unhealthy Bunny gave the world a bit of his recollections rising up in Puerto Rico. Un Verano sin Ti went on to make historical past and has saved individuals expecting what different good experiments are nonetheless to return.