Rosalía announced the details of her upcoming fourth full-length album on Monday night (Oct. 20) with a dramatic reveal in Madrid of the cover art for LUX, which will be released on Nov. 7 on 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 variety of female voices, including Björk, fado singer Carminho, Spanish flamenco singer Estrella Morente, Spanish singer/composer Silvia Pérez Cruz and the Escolania de Montserrat i Cor Cambra Palau de la Música Catalana, regional música mexicana act Yahritza and experimental dance performer Yves Tumor.
According to a release, the album — broken into four movements — was executive produced by the singer and explores themes of “feminine mystique, transformation and spirituality” while “moving between intimacy and operatic scale to create a radiant world where sound, language and culture fuse as one.”
Before the announcement, the singer posted a brief clip on Instagram in which she stares down into her phone while smiling and rocking back and forth and holding a rosary between her teeth as an orchestra plays a haunting passage in the background. In addition, on Monday night the singer made a special surprise appearance during a takeover of Madrid’s Gran Via, in which she sprinted through crowds wearing an all-white, habit-like outfit similar to the one she has on the LP’s cover with the top of her head bearing what she called a blonde “halo” dye job. The livestreamed event included the singer briefly turning off the lights in the area and then re-lighting them to reveal the album’s cover art projected onto a building.
Thousands of fans packed into the Callao plaza in the city center for the pop-up event, which include a 90-minute TikTok stream chronicling the singer’s prep and arrival. Prior to the reveal, the Catalan star teased the announcement on billboards in New York’s Times Square and elsewhere around the world.
The CD and vinyl versions of the album will feature three exclusive tracks, “Focu ‘ranni,” “Jeanne” and “Novia Robot.” Motomami peaked at No. 33 on the Billboard 200 album chart in April 2022; the LP won album of the year, best alternative music album and two other awards at the 2022 Latin Grammy Awards and best Latin rock or alternative album at the 2023 Grammy Awards. Since Motomami‘s release, Rosalía has released a series of collabs, including “New Woman” with Lisa of BLACKPINK, “Oral” with Björk and “Omega” featuring Ralphie Choo, as well as the stand-alone singles “LLYM” and “Tuya,” as well as the 2023 collab EP with Rauw Alejandro RR.
Check out the track list for Lux album below and the artwork here.
MOV I
1. “Sexo, Violencia y Llantas”
2. “Reliquia”
3. “Divinize”
4. “Porcelana”
5. “Mio Cristo”
MOV II
6. “Berghain”
7. “La Perla”
8. “Mundo Nuevo”
9. “De Madrugá”
MOV III
10. “Dios Es Un Stalker”
11. “La Yugular”
12. “Focu ‘ranni”
13. “Sauvignon Blanc”
14. “Jeanne”
MOV IV
15. “Novia Robot”
16. “La Rumba Del Perdón”
17. “Memória”
18. “Magnolias”
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