Brothers David and José Muñoz took their time with Allenrok, Estopa's sixth studio album and the first in three years after 2005's Voces de Ultrarrumba.
The duo's popularity has not lessened a bit, with the record entering the Spanish charts at number one, staying at the top for several weeks, and quickly going platinum.
While hardly a major departure from their previous work, there is enough evidence in Allenrok to suggest that the Muñoz brothers decided it was time to flex their musical muscles and to think harder about their proven modern rhumba formula -- hence the longer gestation period.
The album's first tracks pick up exactly where they had left, with their trademark fun mixture of the Catalan rhumba and rock idioms, and their urban tales about characters lost in love and/or alcohol and marijuana.
Not coincidentally, tracks one and two are also Allenrok's first two singles, "Cuando Amanece" and "Cuerpo Triste." Little by little, however, things start to get more interesting, or at least certainly different, as songs begin to include entire sections done in contrasting styles.
The results are remarkable in a musically schizophrenic way, but credit is due to Estopa for pulling it off and still sounding cohesive.
The plan seems to be: let's lay out a rhumba background and then intersect it with everything but the kitchen sink.
"Desempolvando," for instance, starts with a funk groove punctuated by hard rock guitar chops, then the verse becomes reggae, with the last phrase sung in a traditional flamenco style.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cuando Amanece | Estopa | Play | 03:18 | 7 MB | 0 MB |
| 2 | Cuerpo Triste | Estopa | Play | 03:04 | 7 MB | 0 MB |
| 3 | Era | Estopa | Play | 03:02 | 6 MB | 0 MB |
| 4 | Rumbaketumba | Estopa | Play | 03:07 | 7 MB | 0 MB |
| 5 | Desempolvando | Estopa | Play | 03:58 | 9 MB | 0 MB |
| 6 | Descatalogando | Estopa | Play | 03:22 | 7 MB | 0 MB |
| 7 | Hemicraneal | Estopa | Play | 04:11 | 9 MB | 0 MB |
| 8 | Jugar al Despiste | Estopa | Play | 02:32 | 5 MB | 0 MB |
| 9 | El Run Run | Estopa | Play | 03:23 | 7 MB | 0 MB |
| 10 | Vientos de Tormenta | Estopa | Play | 03:16 | 7 MB | 0 MB |
| 11 | Pesadilla | Estopa | Play | 10:17 | 23 MB | 0 MB |
| 12 | La Matraca | Estopa | Play | 03:41 | 8 MB | 0 MB |
| 47 mins | 108 MB | |||||
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| Artist | Job | |
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| 1 | Estopa | Primary Artist |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |