Uchis, Kali

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	Orquídeas Used Import - 00602458498905 2024 Limited edition gatefold pressing on milky clear vinyl with alternate artwork. Includes signed insert print. "In 2020, Kali Uchis released Sin Miedo (Del Amor y Otros Demonios) 8, her first Spanish-language album. Greeted by her label with trepidation, they strongly advised her not to release a foreign-language album saturated in cumbia, boleros, and jazz-pop romanticos. The label declined to promote it, and it didn't chart. Uchis was vindicated when the track "Telepatía" was used in a TikTok lip-sync challenge and garnered more than a billion streams. At 2022's Latin American Music Awards, the singer/songwriter told reporters she'd finished her third and fourth albums, one in English and one in Spanish. The soulful Red Moon in Venus was in English and debuted at number four on in the Top 200. Orquídeas, its simultaneously recorded companion, is a mirror-image opposite in many ways -- save for that voice and iconic vocal phrasing. All but one track is in Spanish, and it reflects her love of elegantly funky R&B, dembow, bolero, jazzy salsa, and reggaeton. While its production style is as dreamy as Red Moon's, it's also eerier, a nocturnal set for dreamers and dancers. The album's 14 tracks offer several collaborations reflecting her stylistic ambitions. Furthermore, she includes soft emotive vocal choruses in elegant, hooky midtempo songs to satisfy early fans during this creative evolution. Opener "¿Cómo Así?" touches on Red Moon's production style for gentle continuity. The jam offers double-timed beats, layered vocal choruses, and ambient electronics. "Igual Que un Ángel" with Peso Pluma offers bumping R&B with ethereal synths and tight beats, governed by a rubbery post-disco bassline framing swooning, romantic lyrics. "Diosa" melds club-floor electronica with jazzy soul and syncopated merengue. The single "Te Mata" is a steamy, sensual string-drenched bolero that contrasts with the edgy urbano beats on perreo jam "Muñekita," which features raps by dembow heavyweight El Alfa and JT from American hip-hip duo City Girls. (JT raps a Spanish nursery rhyme like she's delivering a criminal indictment.) The track samples from the chorus of 2003's "Papi Chulo" by Lorna. The English-language "Young Rich & In Love" is pillowy with a warm, edgy bassline that underscores the resonant eroticism in its lyrics. The hit single "Labios Mordidos" with Karol G weds reggaeton, hip-hop, and electro-cumbia under a sharp, vampy synth line. "Tu Corazón Es Mío" is a soul-tiged romantico with slippery backbeats, layered strings, and vocal production that recalls the golden years of Philadelphia International. Rauw Alejandro and Uchis render "No Hay Ley Parte 2" as a sterling progressive reggaeton, layering son and EDM atop its sharp-edged perreo strut. Closer "Dame Beso // Muévete" offers orchestral accompaniment as it walks a tightrope between Mexican bolero, Cuban salsa, and Colombian funk, framed with futurist horns. On Orquídeas, Uchis remains true to herself by restlessly expanding her music's stylistic reach, embracing the past as instructor to the present. It is as aesthetically appealing as it is musically adventurous." All Music Guide – Thom Jurek more
	Red Moon In Venus Colored Vinyl - Used - B0037156-01 2023 limited edition pressing on Salmon coloured vinyl; Urban Outfitters Exclusive, limited to 2000 copies. more
	Sincerely, Colored Vinyl - Used - 00602475438847 2025 limited edition gatefold pressing on pink vinyl with signed letter insert in custom pink envelope. "Kali Uchis starts her English-language fifth album by weaving a protection spell with "Heaven Is a Home...." Written weeks after learning that she was carrying her first child, the drifting ballad, made with the returning Dylan Wiggins, Jeff Hazin, and Nick Ferraro -- one-quarter of the singer's cohesive production cohort here -- sets a scene of domestic bliss and shelter. Though expressed softly and like a postscript, "Stay away from my baby, stay away from my home/That's all I ask of the world, that's all I ask of you" could be the LP's Public Enemy-style tagline. In that context, "baby" could be interpreted as child or partner, and it's the latter who is addressed across most of this misty and lush set fusing neo-soul, doo wop, and dream pop. Sincerely is best experienced from front to back. After the first seven songs lightly splash and bob while Uchis sings of gratitude, devotion, and self-doubt, song eight, "Fall Apart," delivers a knockout blow of heavy psychedelic soul. It's a white-hot expression of gratitude for unconditional love, and the singer's performance, especially on the bridge, is stunning. Once the song neatly segues into the doo-wop theater of "All I Can Say," anything seems possible, and though there's greater variety in the twisting and knocking grooves and the lyrical themes, the flow is still easy and the writing remains captivating. In the affectionate throwback "Daggers!," Uchis is part of a love triangle with a woman "sweet as cherry pie" (word to Sade) and a buster "too dumb to know what he's got." "Sunshine & Rain...," a shuffling and sanguine ballad introduced with a greeting from Uchis' late mother, is a persuasive testimonial for companionship in the face of a faltering human race. Uchis dedicated the album to her mother -- who died of lung cancer after it was completed -- and released it the Friday before Mother's Day 2025. Appropriately enough, Uchis sings the finale to her son, born the previous year, and we hear him laugh and say "mama" as the music fades out. That's quite an evolution from being kicked out of her parents' house as a teenager, as referenced on the first half's "Just Us." Calling this the singer's most personal work thus far would be accurate but an understatement somehow. It's on some other level." All Music Guide – Andy Kellman more