Rosalía Dramatically Announces ‘Lux’ Album Featuring Björk, Carminho, Yves Tumor & More With Splashy Madrid Takeover

Rosalía announced the details of her upcoming 4th full-length medium connected Monday nighttime (Oct. 20) with a melodramatic uncover successful Madrid of the screen creation for LUX, which volition beryllium released connected Nov. 7 connected Columbia Records. The 18-track follow-up to 2022’s Motomami was recorded with the London Symphonic Orchestra conducted by Daníel Bjarnason and features a wide assortment of pistillate voices, including Björk, fado vocalist Carminho, Spanish flamenco vocalist Estrella Morente, Spanish singer/composer Silvia Pérez Cruz and the Escolania de Montserrat one Cor Cambra Palau de la Música Catalana, determination música mexicana enactment Yahritza and experimental creation performer Yves Tumor. 

According to a release, the medium — broken into 4 movements — was enforcement produced by the vocalist and explores themes of “feminine mystique, translation and spirituality” portion “moving betwixt intimacy and operatic standard to make a radiant satellite wherever sound, connection and civilization fuse arsenic one.”

Before the announcement, the vocalist posted a brief clip connected Instagram successful which she stares down into her telephone portion smiling and rocking backmost and distant and holding a rosary betwixt her teeth arsenic an orchestra plays a haunting transition successful the background. In addition, connected Monday nighttime the vocalist made a peculiar astonishment quality during a takeover of Madrid’s Gran Via, successful which she sprinted done crowds wearing an all-white, habit-like outfit akin to the 1 she has connected the LP’s screen with the apical of her caput bearing what she called a blonde “halo” dye job. The livestreamed lawsuit included the vocalist concisely turning disconnected the lights successful the country and past re-lighting them to uncover the album’s screen creation projected onto a building.

Thousands of fans packed into the Callao plaza successful the metropolis halfway for the pop-up event, which see a 90-minute TikTok watercourse chronicling the singer’s prep and arrival. Prior to the reveal, the Catalan prima teased the announcement connected billboards successful New York’s Times Square and elsewhere astir the world.

The CD and vinyl versions of the medium volition diagnostic 3 exclusive tracks, “Focu ‘ranni,” “Jeanne” and “Novia Robot.” Motomami peaked astatine No. 33 connected the Billboard 200 medium illustration successful April 2022; the LP won medium of the year, champion alternate euphony medium and 2 different awards astatine the 2022 Latin Grammy Awards and champion Latin stone oregon alternate medium astatine the 2023 Grammy Awards. Since Motomami‘s release, Rosalía has released a bid of collabs, including “New Woman” with Lisa of BLACKPINK, “Oral” with Björk and “Omega” featuring Ralphie Choo, arsenic good arsenic the stand-alone singles “LLYM” and “Tuya,” a...