Alt.Latino presents the best music of 2023 (so far)

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4.5 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras round up their favorite albums of 2023 so far, from the modern corridos tumbados of Peso Pluma, a new, reimagined version of one of Fito Paez's greatest albums, dream pop from Y La Bamba and more. Plus: a run down of regional Mexican's current explosion.

Audio for this episode of 'Alt.Latino' was edited and mixed by Suraya Mohamed. Our show editor is Hazel Cills and our project manager is Grace Chung. Our production assistant is Sofia Seidel. Our VP of Music and Visuals is Keith Jenkins.

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0:00.0	Does the idea of listening to political news freak you out?
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0:22.3	available wherever you get your podcasts.
0:29.2	Nos Fummoz, Viejo. Let's go, Felix.
0:33.9	From NPR music, this is all Latino. I'm Felix Contreras.
0:36.9	And I'm Anna Maria Sayer.
0:39.1	This is regional Mexican artist Pesso Pluma on his new album, Hinesis.
0:44.7	This week, we are talking best albums of the year so far.
0:48.4	And obviously, the Double P himself had to make it on that episode.
0:54.0	We're going to talk a lot more about Pesso Pluma, Mexican Regional, later in the show,
0:58.3	but we have a whole bunch of great new music that's not Mexican Regional.
1:02.1	There's just as deserving of recognition.
1:04.4	Let's just jump right into it.
1:05.9	This is an album from one of my favorite vocalists.
1:09.4	She's from Mexico.
1:10.5	Her name is Mago Cerrera.
1:12.2	And she straddles all of these genres
1:14.2	between jazz, folkloric, what we call art music,
	...

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