Magdalena Vitale’s debut EP veintidós diez lands like a quiet earthquake, small in size, but charged with enough emotional and sonic force to rearrange the landscape of experimental Latin music. Crafted over two years with producer Juan Pelliza, the three-track release merges organic timbres with digital tension, echoing the lineage of artists like Juana Molina and Marina Herlop while carving out a voice unmistakably its own. Living between the city and the forest, Vitale channels habitats into sound, with breath, pulse, glitch, soil, memory. What emerges is an EP that feels alive, shape-shifting with every listen.
The opener “Silencio” moves with the hush of something sacred. Glimmering orchestral tones drift over soft, gliding piano lines, creating an atmosphere, suspended in fog. Rumbling beats simmer beneath the surface, never breaking the meditative spell. Vitale sings in her gravelly low register, calm and deliberate, almost like she’s exhaling a ritual. The lyrics come like a reflection on the power of what remains unspoken, as they ripple like a mantra of the weight silence can hold.
Then “Supe” pivots the EP into warmer, bolder terrain. Smacking drums and buzzing glitch frequencies spark against her relaxed vocal delivery, giving the track a playful restlessness. When the bridge hits, the rhythm section pulses harder, shifting the whole song into a hypnotic, dance-adjacent trance. Her phrasing, nimble, coy, self-possessed, anchors the song’s theme of remembering one’s past selves while learning to move freely. It’s intimate and airy, yet grounded: a celebration of the self that grows roots “sobre el aire.”
The closer “Dulce Espanto” drifts into cinematic shadow. Strummed guitar opens the space, followed by idiosyncratic vocalizations that feel half incantation, half confession. Vitale sings slowly, letting her words trail out like smoke. The atmosphere builds toward something ghostly and suspenseful, a meditation on desire, distance, and the mirror another person becomes. The track glows, flickers, and retreats into silence — a fitting end to an EP that thrives in subtlety and emotional depth.
veintidós diez is brief but potent, as a debut that announces Magdalena Vitale as one of the most intriguing experimental voices in the Spanish-speaking world — and a visionary already defining her own terrain.
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Review by: Naomi Joan