Artist: Y La Bamba

Title: Ojos Del Sol

Label: Tender Loving Empire

Format: Full length compact disc

Disc condition: Like New

Container condition: Like New

UPC: 751937434047

Comments: Its easy to talk about an artists growth as a series of musical decisions: an expanding sonic palette, a change in mood or tempo, an escape from the trappings of genre. Its harder to talk about an artists personal--or even spiritual--growth, because that kind of progress is hard to track. Until, that is, an album like Y La Bambas Ojos Del Sol comes along and screams of radical transformation on every level. The Portland acts fourth offering is a sweeping, playful and vulnerable collection thats ripe with both musical and personal discovery. From the intimate, contemplative verses of the Spanish-language title track to the revelations delivered over the loping beats of Ostrich, this is an album thats painstakingly produced while remaining emotionally raw.