Linea Personal Sprinkles R&b Soul In Lp 'todo ø Nada'

Is location room successful corridos tumbados for a small spot of R&B soul? Linea Personal is betting connected it.

For 3 years, nan música Mexicana set Linea from Stockton has been perfecting its sophomore album, “Todo ø Nada,” a 13-track task that incorporates elements of melodic trap, R&B, blues and corridos tumbados.

“It’s slow music, nan lyrics transmit bully emotion and it’s moody,” said frontman Gustavo Raya Garcia pursuing nan album’s merchandise connected March 26. “Our R&B style is simply a batch different from these [corrido] artists.”

At its halfway “Todo ø Nada” is simply a sad sierreño escapade that heavy has boisterous elements of corrido tumbados — often done wailing high-pitch strumming from a requinto and thunderous tololoche plucks, astir notable successful tracks for illustration “Motorola” and “Tarot.”

But astir chopped from nan LP is nan blues-infused “Caperuzita,” which kicks disconnected nan medium pinch an ethereal, pitch-shifting outcry that wades done nan backdrop arsenic an omniscient tone — an interpolation inspired by Future’s “Wait for U” (featuring Drake and Tems) — while sounds of a banjo speckle about. The set besides isn’t acrophobic to pat into different genres by infusing a drunken, jazzy trumpet into nan activity affirmative “Ülala” — whose infatuating lyrics were partially inspired by nan chorus statement successful Luther Vandross’ ”Never Too Much.”

“R&B is our original sound and we wanted to bring that backmost to this medium but a small different,” said Raya Garcia “We wanted it to person a small spot much emotion to it. That’s why we added caller instruments.”

For nan group — which includes frontman Raya Garcia, his relative and secondary sound Aidan Raya Garcia, requinto subordinate Jorge Ontiveros Zúñiga and guitarist Edgar Lozoya Verduzco — bringing “Todo ø Nada” to fruition was a full slow burn.

The set — who gained traction done their 2024 hustler melodies “Holanda” and nan melancholic “Hennessy” — was often stuck successful lengthy imaginative meetings astatine Street Mob Records, nan grounds explanation founded by Fuerza Regida’s Jesús “JOP” Ortiz Paz, who signed nan set successful 2021.

“It taught america a batch of patience and a batch of religion successful God’s timing,” said Raya Garcia. “We really wanted this medium to travel retired a twelvemonth ago, but things happened for a reason.”

To thief substance their imaginative flow, nan group went down to a formation retreat successful San Carlos, Sonora, correct Mexico’s Gulf of California. They compiled a full of 50 songs, past narrowed it down to nan 13-track list.

“What we look astatine is nan lyrics,” said Edgar Lozoya Verduzco, nan group’s producer. “The 1 we were not excessively judge astir was ‘P— Alcohol’ because it was excessively explicit.”

But astatine nan extremity of nan day, Lozoya Verduzco wanted to push against nan atom pinch nan obscenity-laced way whose lyrics’ double meaning are reminiscent of those successful Lil Wayne’s 2008 “Lollipop.”

“We’re not frightened to effort thing new,” said Lozoya Verduzco.

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With nan merchandise of “Todo ø Nada,” Linea Personal hopes it tin proceed to build connected nan momentum achieved by galore of its Mexican American contemporaries — including corrido tumbado forefather Natanael Cano and its mentor, Fuerza Regida. According to Spotify, corridos accounted for 77% of each música Mexicana streaming successful 2023.

“We are inspired a batch [by these acts], we spot their mentality,” said Lozoya Verduzco. “We request need to beryllium precisely for illustration that aliases activity 10 times harder.”