Melancholic reminiscence, soft leading vocals accompanied by strong and exciting beats. That's your welcome to Poster Boy, the spanish female duo of Luz Abril and María Lázaro creating top tier tracks that aim directly to fight right beside the monthly radio top charts. motel is their second single so far and under Warner Music Spain's umbrella, breathing life into the latin scene of alternative pop with influence that travels worldwide.
Poster Boy's proposition is simple, straight to the point, lyrics that stick with melodies that make the heart beat:
"Una silueta con forma de tí, me persigue por la sala,
(A silhouette shaped of you, follows me through the living room)
intento borrarla, intento olvidarla."
(I try to erase it, I try to forget it)
Every acoustic chord struck feels perfectly performed and by the time the tension rises to its highest point at the chorus you can feel all the weight and the mix is stellar, which is to be expected for the level of quality in production Poster Boy seems to be aiming for, after all, they are previous members of the now defunct popular band "trashi" and even earlier part of "Jump to The Moon the experience shows throughout.
Their cover art comes to life in the official music video, directed by the duo in conjunction with Javier Peñalver and produced by Cristóbal Caballero, motel's music video is intimate at the same time it feels distant. By not depicting an exact translation of the lyrics but rather a feeling we get the eminent sensation of being left in the dark with no one else in sight for miles, the bittersweet comfort of loneliness in this vast world blends really well with the music itself. Oddly enough though, at the time of review, the music video seems to have the audio track on mono, which is an incredibly strange decision (if not a mistake) for what is one of the most important accompanying works any artist may put out for their music, especially when, as hinted before, so much work seems to have been dedicated to the mix, panning it out to fully surround you as listener.
Perhaps, other than what was just described, the track in itself feels almost as if it was flawless which really got me invested in finding out more about Poster Boy as a duo, and if you are also left wondering about them, what follows is perhaps the less exciting paragraph to come from this review.
Because the reality is that there is not much to officially come out of their own media, as they have been described "minimalistic pop" that encompasses little to no public facing easy access information about what they stand for, what they describe themselves as or what's in their sights for the future which is really a shame as they got something that at the very least seems highly personal in their hands and could explore to further connect with the world, but admittedly it's not something that anyone else but themselves can direct or decide is right or not, however if you've been following this page you'll know our concerns for the dehumanization of arts and how the listener is each day more alienated to the concept a human artist with an increasing push for AI music and the never-ending, algorithmic-pleasing chase of patterns over personality. But that's a rant for another time and I'm excited to hear more from what's to come from this very, very promising duo!