As the Puerto Rican indie music scene continues to grow and expand, artists experiment with sounds in order to find their own voice. One of the many musicians to do so is Skeptic who with his latest album, Boca de Lobo, provides some alternative and experimental hip hop with elements of spoken word and electronic music. Starting off the project is “En La Oscuridad,” an alternative track that features Skeptic’s spoken word flow. Afterwards, he delivers “Nadie Me Quiera,” a tune that continues to display the same skills from the previous song, but goes deeper into beat experimentation. Next, Skeptic gets together with Jorge Abejas to provide “Dios Sabe,” a song that sees the musicians touching the subject of god and if it exists. Meanwhile with “Algo en el Aire,” the musician explores the subject of love and trust as he displays his rapping skills over a trap beat accompanied by Tiago and Erre. Then Skeptic provides “Quién Dijo?,” an R&B influenced heartache tune where the artist puts into practice his melodic side. Closing the first half of Boca de Lobo is “Haz Tiempo,” an electronic influenced alternative song where Skeptic encourages listeners to do the best they can with their time. The second half of Boca de Lobo starts with “Es Diferente (Edman Interlude),” a short interlude that mocks how people want artists to be different, but at the same time expect them to be like all others. Following the short interlude is “El Diferente,” a song that sees Skeptic collaborating with Los Chinchillos del Caribe as he encourages listeners to follow their dreams against whatever people think. Next, Skeptic delivers “Ni Una Palabra,” which shows a change of pace for the artist as he blends today’s electronic production with some more traditional live instruments such as strings, horns and xylophones in a tune that explore today’s communication in romantic relationships. Afterwards, listeners are thrown into “Tu Fantasma,” a late night playlist type of track that is influenced by alternative influenced R&B. Then Skeptic explores open relationships with the song “Relación Abierta,” a song that shows the artist blending his rap flows with spoken word over a trap and trip hop influenced beat. The project finishes with “La Pared,” a collaboration with friend Unochosiete where both musicians touch on the subject of love as they blend elements of hip hop and Latin pop music to create a danceable and mainstream appealing track. In short, Skeptic’s Boca de Lobo is an interesting alternative project that will most certainly intrigue listeners everywhere as the artist shows how he’s clearly unafraid of exploring all of the sounds which inspire him. In addition, he shows that mainstream success isn’t his priority, but that he will take it if it comes thereby demonstrating that he will follow being unique over anything else.
Listen to Boca de Lobo in Spotify All of the pictures in this article were found in Skeptic’s Facebook
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AuthorFernando E. E. Correa González is the author behind over 30 self-published poetry books. He has been published by literary magazines & journals [Id]entidad, El Vicio del Tintero, Sábanas Magazine, Smaeralit, The Occulum, Tonguas and Hound Magazine. Other than writing, Correa is also the host of FENCast, a podcast dedicated to documenting the Puerto Rican independent art scene. Aside from this, he experiments with filmmaking, photography, drawing, painting, multimedia and transmedia. He currently lives in his native Puerto Rico. Archives
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