The Spanish artist continues to showcase the weird and creative reaches of his sound on his sophomore LP
A truly unique project that received the Silver Medal at the Global Music Awards 2025, emerging Spanish artist SEHORE established a distinctive style with the release of their debut album LADENCIA, released back at the start of the year, and has rapidly released a follow up in the form their sophomore album Husfikbur.
The new album opens with the aptly titled ‘Bossa velha’, a track that takes timeless bossa nova rhythms and brings them to life in a fun, forward-thinking fashion, melded with the artist’s unique “kitsch” style, interweaving consonant harmonies with dissonance in order to make for a style that is something of a rarity in modern music. The end result is a sound that feels stylish and familiar while truly having its own flavour and appeal, much like the rest of the album.
The repetitive nature of ‘Locura’ follows and creates this really atmospheric and at times kind of intense feel that is permeated by the more light-hearted and varied nature of the vocals, whereas ‘Charanga’ has an altogether more upbeat and vibrant feel, utilising a range of sounds and ideas to convey an increasingly intense sexual situation that is invoking a sense of anxiety and tension within the narrator that is explored through the more frantic nature of the sound.
‘Plástico’ is a track that sees the album delve into truly unsettling territory, with its dissonance and unsettling energy reaching a fever pitch both musically and through the message that it is conveying. The dystopian soundscape mirrors lyrics that surround themes like the excessive materials that we use as humans and the pollution and damage that it is doing to the world, with the sounds doing an all-too effective job of representing this anger and sadness.
Things take a turn back to a slightly more conventional style on ‘Poquito a poco’, a track that has a more endearing and soft feel to it, before ‘Bla bla bla, Cha Cha Cha’ brings out more of the album’s more experimental tendencies, with fun instrumentation and creative chord progressions making for a sound that feels interesting and exciting throughout, despite the lack of lyrics.
This is followed by ‘ Tientos, tangos y siguiriya funk’, a gorgeously funk-laden track that is packed full of fun ideas, sonic left-turns and a flair for the dramatic and unexpected that keeps you on your toes throughout. If there is one thing to be said for this album, it is that it never, at any point, does pretty much anything that you would expect or that feels predictable or stale, bombarding you with creativity and ideas throughout.
The jaunty bounce of ‘Escape Room’ explores the art of games of chance and luck with an enthusiastic and vibrant charm that feels inescapably fun from the moment that it starts, while the alternative rock riffs of ‘Energías renovables’ delve into more hard-hitting themes like nuclear bombs and the uncertain state of the world in modern times, making for a track that leaves a lasting impression on you as a listener.
‘Mentiras’ is a fun track that sees the artist playing with words and looking to create different phrases using the same words used in the first line, against a backdrop of intricate guitars and rousing rhythms, while its follow-up ‘Armas’ uses an unconventional 5/4 time signature to delve into an impactful track that surrounds themes like the arms industry and the way that they can tear apart the fabric of family and even nations in the name of just doing business.
The nature of the universe and chance encounters are explored in rousing fashion through ‘Serendipia’, one of the album’s more optimistic moments and one that is packed full of melodic passages and a sense of vibrancy and life that makes for one of the record’s most straight-forward and uplifting moments, catchy and charming in equal measure.
These things never last long in SEHORE’s world though, and ‘Hipnosis’ is an atmospheric, themerin-inspired track that looks to create the kind of unsettling feel of Charcot’s experiments at the Salpêtrière, making for really unique and one-of-a-kind listening experience on an album that is packed full of them.
The album closes out with ‘Lagrimita’, a track that surrounds the theme of leaving and letting go, just as the album is about to do the same. There is a truly emotional and resonating feel to the track, and it makes for powerful and engrossing listening as the artist delivers one of his most moving and committed vocal performances to date, promising not to leave as we come to the end of this collection of tracks.
Husfikbur is a really difficult album to even put into words or justify just how creative and ambitious it feels, many of the tracks on display here feel like they could be entirely different bodies of work, broaching broad-ranging themes like serendipity, war, relationships, pollution, but all with a very human beating heart that cares and is filled with passion and drive, and that is the unifying core that ties all of these tracks together and makes them feel so powerful and dynamic, no matter how weird or outlandish things get.
