The latest work of the Spanish Rosalía, ‘Lux’, has been chosen this Friday by the British newspaper The Guardian as the best album of 2025, ahead of ‘Essex Honey’, by Blood Orange, and ‘Euro-Country’, by CMAT.
In his list of the 50 best albums of the year, ‘Lux’ stood out above all others as a “monumental and maximalist” work, in which the “dazzling and audacious” Catalan singer “balanced pop and classical music, experimentation and accessibility”.
This is how it was described by journalist Michael Cragg, who along with 29 other Guardian music critics voted for the most relevant musical works of the past twelve months.
Also in eighth place was another Latin voice with ‘Debí Tirar Más Fotos’, the sixth album by Puerto Rican Bad Bunny, whom this media considers an “incredible driver” who “synthesizes the past – salsa, bolero, perreo – with the present”.
The undisputed star is, however, Rosalía and ‘Lux’, which was already chosen last November by the prestigious Billboard magazine as the second best album released in 2025, only behind that of Bab Bunny.
“With lyrics in 13 languages and references to dozens of historical saints, the fact that Lux manages to transcend academic caresses and Wikipedia deep dives is almost miraculous, and the credit goes solely to Rosalia,” Cragg wrote.
The critic recalled that this is not the first album with which the Spanish singer combines the past and the present – in reference to ‘El Mal Querer’ -, although he maintained that there was now more at stake by making a “much more pronounced” leap.
“What elevates him, in addition to his multi-layered melodies, rich compositions and rooted drama, is the playful spirit at his heart,” she noted.
Cragg compared her to Björk during the Icelandic singer’s heyday in the 1990s, in that Rosalía’s voice also conveys “a sense of wonder that pulls you into her whirlwind.”
“Even when it breaks your heart in two, as in the flowing ballad of ‘The Jugular’ or the ascension to heaven with ‘Magnolias’ at the end, you want to be there with her,” the journalist observed.
‘Lux’, he concluded, is pop on a “maximalist scale”, but it is also an “avid search for art with capital letters” in the face of “the imminent vacuum of artificial intelligence”, reported Agencia EFE.
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