Opposites, as they say, attract. If you need proof that such a statement is true, listen to Husfikbur, the second album from musical adventurer Sehore. Like Ladencia before it, which received the Silver Medal at the Global Music Awards 2025 for the track “Pesadilla,” this album almost defies logic, certainly expectation and predictability.
It is an album that mixes Mediterranean sonic traditions with gnarly, alt-rock salvos, virtuoso guitars with raw, indie riffs, bossa nova grooves with more contemporary beats. And it sometimes does all of this in the passage of one song!
“Bossa Vehla” opens as the perfect statement of intent. As that familiar dance groove emerges out of squalling guitar attacks, you realize that juxtaposition is the name of the game. Chiming guitars are then run through bossa nova beats, before the song is consumed in more raging walls for sound. The title cleverly reminds us of the ever-changing nature of music as the new trend becomes the old trend leaving room for a new trend!
“Poquito a Poco” is a chiming indie track, running on a circular and scintillating pedal riff, which acts as the shimmering, hypnotic heart of this upbeat song. “Bla Bla Bla – Cha Cha Cha” sounds like The Cramps had they come not from Sacramento but grown up playing the beachfront cafes and basement bars of the Balearics. “Hipnosis,” by contrast, is a dreamscape, spoken word, 60s-infused, space trip. This is undoubtedly an album that keeps you guessing.
Old ideas are found in what has gone before, but new music emerges as an artist steps into the future. Sehore is an artist who understands this and is creating his own road map to that future, or at least one version of the future, by fusing genres, sounds, and styles, blending music that, up until now, was rarely found in each other’s company.
It’s how an artist moves on, it’s how music moves on, it’s how the creative world moves on.
Husfikbur was recorded at Paco Loco Studio and mastered at Kadifornia by Mario G. Alberni.
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