El Marinero

Marinero (aka singer-songwriter Jess Sylvester) began life as a woozy bedroom indie band with Latin influences, and has since grown into something much more musically involved with a sound that pays homage to influences as wide as Broadcast, Carole King, Los Pasteles Verdes, and Ennio Morricone. After initial releases that had a noisier approach like 2018's High Tone, the project became more intimate and subdued (2019's TRÓPICO DE CÁNCER), and 2021's Hella Love was as artfully arranged as a late '60s Beach Boys album, only with plenty of soft Latin sounds mixed in. The balance...