Torreblanca review: Bella Epoca
Torreblanca turns in a REAL ALBUM!
Torreblanca’s first full length LP is a solid and exciting effort.
Based in Mexico city, Mexico, they turn in a quality follow up to a phenomenal debut album. A sophomore album can be a stumbling block for most bands, not in this case, in this case Torreblance raises the bar on themselves, and the rest of the Latin Indie world.
With their sophomore album, “BELLA EPOCA”, their mission is accomplished, congratulations Torreblanca. This well put together effort almost has an operatic feel in it’s granduear and scope of sound. Its definitely a 2-3 sit down & listen type of album to really absorb everything that they are presenting in these well woven songs.
It gives me this feeling of high drama, I’m not big on drama, but this album is an important work for sure. It makes me feel like they are pushing the Latin Indie genre, to be more conceptual and deliver a higher level musicianship, which frankly isn’t the case with most bands in general.
This album is almost like a pose down at a body building contest between Torreblanca, and the rest of the Latin Indie field. Torreblanca wins.
Bella Epoca is great, it is unique, and it actually has this sense of being one long cohesive story telling LP. This album is absolutely worthy of being pressed onto vinyl and being played one side to the next on your favorite record player. The Long Play conceptual album is a lost art, obviously not lost on the Torreblanca camp.
The album still isn’t available in the US iTunes store, but there are ways to find it. Ours was hand delivered by music connoisseur Raoul Delgado Jr. Thank you good sir.
