Vic Mirallas confesses all his ‘doubts’ in his new album

For all those who have been orphaned by the end of Operation Triunfo 2023 and the images of one of his most beloved teachers we have good news: Vic Mirallas has released an album.

The Barcelona singer, composer and producer notified us at the beginning of last October, when he used his social networks to share with his followers that he was immersed in the creation of a new project (at that time without a name) that has ended up being configured as doubts: “I’m making a record! I am in this process of changing things, deleting, creating again, doubts, many many doubts and debts. I don’t know what it’s going to be called or what concept (at all) it’s going to have. What I do know is that this process is one of the things I enjoy most about my profession.”

Almost self-prophetically, because the word appears twice in his message, his fourth album has ended up being called that, doubts. A trip to Mexico, his entry into OT as a vocal coach (accompanying the contestants to build the themes for the galas, as well as helping them in the production and composition of the edition’s anthem) and the release of three singles later, the album is now with us.

A confessional, intimate and vulnerable project where Vic Mirallas seems to follow the path of what he was FDAtheir latest EP, which released last August already introduced us to a formal novelty within its aesthetics: Catalan abandoned the capital letters of CROSSWORDS (the song with which he closes and which gives name to his previous album), to surrender to the lower case.

And when it comes to talking about oneself and putting the thoughts, sensations and feelings that go through our heads in front of the microphone, it seems that Everything is easier if it is said in small letters, in lower case, between fear and whisper.. doubts becomes the artist’s personal diary to make us witnesses of emotions that take shape through drums, percussion, piano, guitars, synthesizers, distortions, phrasing, touches of jazz, touches of electronics and urban music.

A diary that fits contradictions, impulses and acceptance of one’s own way of being despite doubts and constant debts to others: from the questions that one asks oneself when one is starting a relationship and does not know what the other person feels (“I have a hard time identifying what you really feel, give me a map to read you” from relevant) to the great vital uncertainties (“Destiny, prepare me a suite in your garden in which I feel good just for existing” by suite room), everything has a place in this emotional cartography that has given us this midnight. A compendium of emotions in which, of course, its more romantic side also appears with songs like vampires and petons (vampires and kisses, the only two songs on the album in Catalan).

Despite the doubts, Vic Mirallas also draws his own conclusions: Living is easier when one accepts the disaster which is his life, he walks letting himself be carried away by impulses and lets himself be surprised by coincidences. The man from Barcelona breathes, takes a breath and moves forward on his path: the doubts are important and remain (that is why the song that closes the album is the one that gives it its name again), but they do not paralyze him.