Points de Suspension

Follows cd ep on Shelflife. Welcome to... ‘Points de Suspension’, Souvenir’s first album. An attractive title for a record that will easily excite the listener’s curiosity, a curiosity enhanced by the exquisite artwork of prestigious designer Javier Aramburu. Here’s a bright-coloured record that opens us the whole range of possibilities the band can display, as forecasted by their debut mini-CD (jab-014). Possibilities joined together by the spirit of pop and of French, the language in which they’re performed. For French, apart from being the songs’ common thread, is the particular point of view from which J’aime Cristóbal, Souvenir’s main writer and leader, shows us his ample wealth of influences and styles. In the record, we’re taken for a walk down the different styles that comprise his unmistakable personality, and we rediscover pop, country, techno or soul music from a different viewpoint. His personality is embodied within the band by singer Patricia de la Fuente, who’s in charge of providing the songs with magic and of smoothening with different colours the broad range of tonalities and feelings the album displays. The perfect singer for describing and expressing herself with an eye in the past but unmistakably from the present, avoiding a fall into pure ‘retro’. Because even if Souvenir are a group different from the rest, they belong to now and have their personal view of the 21st Century music. It’s this particular take on music that has caused a great stir among independent music fans in Spain and in the rest of the world. This interest will surely grow stronger with their forthcoming album among people who appreciate the different... a word to the wise is enough!