At this point, it should not be surprising that Yuri Méndez Barrios signs a magnificent album under the protection of a project as warm as it is. Sunrise Bird, taking into account the latent quality in what is already his generous previous curriculum. And yet, the Leonese man once again surprises everyone and everyone with a magnificent album, perhaps the best of his entire career, in which he definitively breaks away from any type of stylistic restraint to delve into varied directions and complete a plural work capable of to confuse and excite at every turn.
The delivery begins with the musician’s usual folk outburst, embodied in the beautiful nostalgia of “The Mute And The Blind” –which shortly after will find a logical continuation in another half-time turned into a pop gem as it is “Parking Lot”–, and then immediately take a 180 degree turn with the electronic (even danceable) lines of “Small Circus, So Many Clowns”. A sort of cut halfway between the most spirited Eels and Hot Chip, which is completely functional without losing its bearing.
An animosity spread in the optimistic and bright “Devotion”while the shadow of Mark Oliver Everett appears again in “Hey Matisse”. Other highlights located in a single item without waste “Not Hungry” (which makes one think of another super gifted one like LA), the convincing crooner suit that fits in “Inhale”, “The Real Top Of The Pops”, a “Lover Lover” reminiscent of Nick Drake and Bob Dylan, “Shallow Waters”, “Pointless” or the moderate exoticism of the final “The Sweetest Thing”.
“The Future Is Not What It Used To Be” It is, above all, a compendium of the different artistic manifestations presented by an exceptional composer such as Pajaro Sunrise. A complex-free work that clearly reveals the definitively unleashed splendor of the author, perhaps previously sensed, but unpublished to date in the present terms. A set of songs that also points to an exceptional storyteller, whom only bad fortune and the prioritization of atrocious fashions have been able to deprive of greater recognition. The same one that he deserves for that status of elegant and talented artist that he once again demonstrates.