Corazones (Omar Rodríguez-López album)

Corazones
Studio album by Omar Rodríguez-López
Released July 29, 2016
Recorded 2012, 2014 at The Casino, Nashville, TN
Genre Folk rock, alternative rock, Americana
Length 34:52
Label Ipecac Recordings
Producer Omar Rodríguez-López & Sam Margolis
Omar Rodríguez-López solo chronology
Sworn Virgins
(2016)		 Corazones
(2016)		 Blind Worms Pious Swine
(2016)
Omar Rodríguez-López chronology
Antemasque
(2014)		 Corazones
(2016)		 Crystal Fairy
(2017)

Corazones is the 28th studio album by Omar Rodríguez-López as a solo artist, released on 29 July 2016. It is his second release in the 12 album series initiated by Ipecac Recordings.[1]

The song "Sea is Rising" made its first studio appearance on 2013's Unicorn Skeleton Mask, while the song was actually debuted instrumentally on the Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group 2010 tour. "Running Away" was uploaded in advance as the album's single.

On August 1, 2016, Pitchfork released a music video for the song "Running Away" directed by Violeta Felix which features John Frusciante, former Mars Volta bassist Eva Gardner, Teri Gender Bender (of Le Butcherettes and Bosnian Rainbows), photographer Robin Laananen, actress Tatiana Velazquez, visual artist Aura T-09 and Buzz Osborne (of The Melvins) all punching Omar in the face.

Background

Described as "mournful folk-pop", Corazones features songs originally intended to be used for a film (which eventually failed to materialize). The studio wanted Omar's vocal delivery and music for the film to be as "straight-ahead" as possible and the result he compared to "childlike nursery rhymes." His main inspiration for the songs was his mother, who was terminally ill at the time. Omar stated, "when working with the director and producer, all the themes that were in the film itself were exactly what I was going through: loss, loss of identity because of such an extreme loss."[2] After his mother died, Omar decided to hire his friend Sam Margolis to help him finish the production.[3]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."We Feel The Silence"3:48
2."Running Away"2:55
3."It Was Her"3:22
4."Dead Heart"0:44
5."Lola"2:33
6."Sea Is Rising"2:47
7."Certainty"3:25
8."Arrest My Father"3:04
9."Some Sort of Justice"3:56
10."Five Different Pieces"3:31
11."If I Told You the Truth I Would Be Made of Lies"4:47

Tracks 3 & 4 form a single piece.

Personnel

Release history

Region Date Label Format
Worldwide July 29, 2016 Ipecac Recordings Digital download

References

  1. ↑ "Ipecac Recordings Issue 12 Omar Rodríguez-López Releases".
  2. ↑ "Rolling Stone article".
  3. ↑ "Omar Rodriguez-Lopez To Release 12 Solo Albums On Ipecac Records Before Years' End".
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