NOIA: “Eclipse de Amor” [ft. Buscabulla]

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Don’t deny a lady her resentment. “Me diste la ilusión/De quedarme a tu vera” (“You gave me the phantasm/Of staying by your aspect”), accuses the Barcelona-born, Brooklyn-based experimental pop artist NOIA on her single “Eclipse de Amor,” her sharp and ethereal falsetto piercing via curls of percussion. Buscabulla vocalist Raquel Berrios echoes NOIA’s sluggish, embittered tone, however there’s deeper unhappiness beneath; her voice is as gentle as charmeuse, however forlorn and tattered, like a hand-me-down costume.

NOIA and Buscabulla aren’t involved with merely mirroring the structure of a grief-stricken bolero; right here, they reimagine it altogether. “Eclipse de Amor” shines because of its sudden manufacturing prospers: Over the bolero percussion, an incandescent synth line from Buscabulla’s Luis Alfredo Del Valle sparkles like a unfastened lightbulb, and within the outro, there’s the whistle of Puerto Rico’s beloved coquí frogs. (The sounds appeared within the background when Berrios recorded herself one night time in Puerto Rico and at the moment are artfully amplified by NOIA.) Then a jagged dembow riddim punctures the monitor, and NOIA’s chopped-up vocals glitch at a gradual tempo, blasting reggaeton and bolero right into a Caribbean timewarp. Within the collision, NOIA fantastically captures the depth of romantic sorrow.