UN CORAZON DE NADIE

The album 'Un Corazón De Nadie' (Spainsh for 'A Heart of No-One') by Omar Rodriguez-Lopez was initially recorded in November 2010, but it was issued only in 2012, so it took a long time to released it.

Actually this album is the first part of electronic music trilogy released by Omar Rodriguez-Lopez in 2012. Omar played all instruments here, and sleeve artwork was created by his mother, who has died in March 2012.

The whole record is indeed very electronic-sounding, and very minimalistic in its extent. There's nothing really interesting to listen to, so you can simply skip it. Track called 'Hez' has some enjoyable keyboard work (reminds ne of Radiohead a little bit), and it's the only highlight here. If you're not a die-hard fan of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, there's really no use of wasting your time on it, so you can live a full life and not lose anything at all without listening to this record.

3,5/10

ORL continues his exploration into electronic territory by utilising such instrumentation in yet another pretty different way, this time using it as a sort of backdrop to craft a lot of dark, sombre soundscapes that simultaneously foreboding and mournful. Unfortunately, that's about all I feel this album has going for it, a bunch of initially interesting soundscapes that don't really get expanded upon in any especially interesting ways, ultimately being a bit of a hollow experience. I don't deny the fact that there was certainly quite a strong effort to craft a unique, haunting experience either, this isn't quite like a couple of his other projects that sound more akin to messing about for the sake of seeing what he could do (a totally fine approach to do that sometimes has worked out rather well for him), but rather a very conscious effort to craft something deeply cohesive. I simply just don't feel much from it and think that a bit more time to properly develop a lot of the individual elements here to do more than simply fit an aesthetic would've gone a long way into making this a truly compelling experience. Not particularly bad, it just doesn't really do much in the end unfortunately.