‘While the Guadalquivir flows and flows and flows’ will be Viva Belgrado’s new album and the first since the massive Cancionero de los cielos, which left essential indie rock tracks—regardless of language—of this decade, such as ‘Un tragaluz’.
The trio of Cándido Gálvez, Jaime Acosta, and Álvaro Mérida has unveiled its fifth record with the thunderous ‘Un andalucito más,’ and the second teaser lowers the tension, offering a guitar-pop sound that is more melodic, restrained, and nostalgic.
‘Súper futuro’ appears to be a pivotal track on Mientras el Guadalquivir fluye y fluye y fluye, as it will be the one to close an album that deals with ‘the weight of the past and the cyclical processes that bring us back again and again to the beginning’. Today’s Song of the Day learns to accept the present and embrace the future because ‘the good things are on the way.’ Although its main proclamation may be the line: ‘I couldn’t care less about fate’.
Crafted on electric guitar lines that feel very The Cure, evoking the more radio-friendly college rock of the 80s and 90s, ‘Súper futuro’ does not turn its back on the past or nostalgia, recalling that there was a better past when ‘Anguita was alive’ and when the narrator ‘used to snack much more,’ which, to our eyes, seems like a memory of youth.
Yet the song’s motto is to keep moving forward: ‘The years I’ve lost I don’t intend to recover.’ The line ‘The future chases you to the end / for the days to come and those that will go away’ sums up that idea, reminding us that time does not stop and that the future inevitably reaches us, whether we want it to or not: the only option is to greet it with the same blend of resignation, optimism, and nonchalance that runs through the entire song.
