Lido Pimienta has announced her first new album in five years, La Belleza. The follow-up to 2020’s Miss Colombia arrives May 16 via Anti-. The Colombian and Canadian musician’s third studio record is led by the single “Mango,” which comes with a lyric video filmed in a humble courtyard. Check out the new song below.
La Belleza follows Pimienta as she dips her toes into the enriching world of classical music. It was written by Pimienta and co-orchestrated with Owen Pallett. Despite not being classically trained, Pimienta felt compelled to try her hand at the genre after falling in love with the Luboš Fišer soundtrack for the movie Valerie and Her Week of Wonders.
“The thought of making ‘classical music’ never occurred to me before, but making experimental electronica on Miss Colombia was not premeditated either,” said Pimienta in a press release. “All I create is a natural evolution of my curiosity and stubbornness.”
Read about “Eso Que Tú Haces” in “The 22 Best Songs by Latinx Artists in 2020” and revisit Matthew Ismael Ruiz’s essay about the liberating qualities of Lido Pimienta’s record in “The Year in Latin Music.”
La Belleza:
01 Overturn (Obertura de la Luz Eterna)
02 Ahora
03 Quiero Que Me Beses
04 Mango
05 Aún Te Quiero
06 El Dembow del Tiempo
07 ¿Quién Tiene la Luz? (El Perdón)
08 Tengo Que Ir
09 Busca la Luz
