Mabe Fratti’s fourth album begins with conviction. Over slow, determined drums, she fingers her cello like a furious bassist, its C string rattling with the aftershock of her powerful plucks.
As a narrator, though, she’s less self-assured. “Quizás haya oídos en el techo / Quizás alguien está del otro lado de la pared,” she sings: Maybe there are ears in the ceiling.
Maybe there’s someone on the other side of the wall. This paranoia reverberates throughout Sentir que no sabes (Feel like you don’t know) — in the white-knuckled groove of “Kravitz,” the soul-searching slow burn of “Pantalla azul,” the claustrophobic minimalism of “Oídos,” and the doomsaying repetition of “Quieras o no.” And that’s just side A.
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