Yo returns with a striking new single, “Volver al aire,” featuring the soaring soprano presence of Carmina Alegría, a piece that sits at the very heart of the album’s narrative. Carved in the spirit of new age resonance but infused with neoclassical grandeur and ambient pop lushness, the song transforms the heaviness of death and mourning into an almost liturgical beauty. This track envelops, like twilight seeping into a quiet cathedral.
It opens atmospherically with an almost imperceptible glow that slowly swells, pulling the listener into twilight. Carmina Alegría enters with her crystalline soprano, a voice stretched skyward, trembling with both fragility and power. Her sustained notes feel almost like prayers, as if each pleading and luminous phrase were carried on incense smoke. A sharper, grounded timbre cuts in, his delivery rich with urgency, almost theatrical, a counterpoint that feels like the voice of inevitability itself. Their interplay rises and falls like breath, echoing the title “to return to the air.”
The chorus, imbued with liturgical grandeur, resounds like a requiem turned luminous, not dark. Alegría soars and belts like death speaking and longing for transcendence, for the soul to unshackle itself. Yo’s interjections, passionate and pointed, ground the dialogue in human fear, making the exchange all the more dramatic. By the song’s end, when the two voices entwine, it surrenders to exhaling into the beyond.
Finding serenity in despair, “Volver al aire” offers the finality of loss as a form of beauty that has bonded with spirituality into an almost cinematic soundscape.
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Review by: Naomi Joan