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You're listening to Sound opinions in this week, we're talking about the unique bond between Latino fans

and British 80s music, with Dr. Ricky Rodriguez. I'm Jim D. Wrigatis, and I'm Greg Kahn.

We'll learn the influence was far from a one-way street, but first some new music from Kalella and Yolatengo.

That is a little bit of washed away the first single from the new Kalella album Raven. Her second studio album six years after the release of her debut,

take me apart. This artist has been working pretty steadily since about 2013. She put out a genre-hopping mix tape cut for me back then that got her a lot of notice.

2015, an EP called Hallucinogen, that was bringing electronic beats to R&B alongside her producer, Arca, and along the way she started writing songs for a bunch of artists,

Solon, she was working with you, she was working with Gorilla's Damon Albarn, she was a go-to songwriter, trying to develop a following as sort of an alternative R&B vein.

She was finding her place in the music industry. Take me apart the debut album, what she considers her official debut album was a pretty bold statement in 2016.

It's taken her a while to create the follow-up. Here it is finally though. Raven is the name of the record. We're going to play the title track from the new Kalella album on Sound Opinions.

That is Raven, the title track of the second affair.

That is Raven, the title track of the second official album from Kalella.

Raven is reborn, Greg. They tried to break her. There's nothing here to mourn.

Lyrically, Kalella's debut was about recovering from bad relationships. I'd say this record overall is more optimistic.

She still has challenges in love. Kalella identifies as a queer, Greg. She's proud of that, but she is embracing the possibility for romance and she is going with the flow.

That is not an idly chosen metaphor. Water, rain, the ocean, mist, floating, dew. These are images and feelings that come up again and again.

It has been since 2010 since we got a new record from Sharday. The world needs Sharday. This new generation, my students at Columbia College, need a Sharday.

Sensual, make-out music, romantic, transporative, regardless of the gender of your partner. I just think this is an incredibly great make-out album. I can't come up with a better word.

That is full of empowerment, in full of respect, and is not looking at love through blinders. In enough for love, she is a partner. If they're tough enough, are you tough enough for love?

Her answer is yes, despite another track being called Bruises. This is worth pursuing in your life.

I love this record. It's a real, just enveloping sensual experience.

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