We need to know how to do and to put an end to the transitions. Anyone who gets into the debate runs the risk of the roads starting and falling halfway. The debate between the tactic and the strategy that the communists are saying, you know that. I believe that the Madeleine group has completed the journey undertaken in Su Hura (2018) and has well consolidated its style in The Impossible (2021).
It has been composed in confinement in their homes and, after sharing it on the premises, it has been recorded with Eñaut Gaztañaga, giving continuity to the sound previously searched. The Delay and Reverb guitar, the thick bass, the processed batteries and a little autotunea have achieved their “poz-rock” sound.
The lyrics of the songs have been made by Itzal Uranga and Gartxot Unsain, each of them sings theirs, gaining intimacy and credibility. Unai asks “what is a daily life”, far from claiming young people at the age of 30, the importance of making their own way.
Tame Impala has smelled “high-speed herrena,” a song about the TAV that “pierces volcanoes in the valley of the viscera” and the internal speeds of the time. When you see me, singing has given him a touch more festival indie with his bottom end funky.
The climax of the album I found in the song Beste eza. No nostalgia activity, in the style of choruses of the Berlin and Tartalo songs published on the album Mugarri (2013), singing with throat at home, in the car and in the concert. You want to scream again and again because you move inside what is there to move: “I’m waiting for the inner summer to a spring / winter fall / yellow leaf / (now) swollen with feet on the ground.”
We cannot fail to mention the beautiful skin of Sal Factory. It looks like a spring painting, painted in the autumn palette.
I recognise that I was not caught in the first hearing. The audience was to blame, perhaps because they were expecting greater change. After paying attention, the nuances give me a more sincere idea of The Impossible. I come back to the initial idea, because this work is a project that is inventing its way. Because Madeleine is nothing else, a group of friends singing about their lives and, therefore, about our lives. “Panic and sit down / Give your fire a chance / At home / At home Hire / The door is open”.