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Partido — Leaving All Behind (Warner Music Spain) Pop-folk
website listen video Partido’s first album was fully recorded in Paco Loco’s studio (producer of Mishima and La Iaia), and includes songs with rich acoustic tones and a tendency towards melancholy, deriving inspiration from folk and alternative Country music but always in a manifestly pop language. Calm and melancholy songs performed with a great deal of perfectionism and ambition. The album achieves the expectations of a band which in just under a year has managed to become the opening act for prestigious international artists such as Mojave 3, The Dodos, Damien Jurado, Sea of Bees and Caitlin Rose. In autumn of 2011 they were chosen by the American artist Eef Barzelay to become his own private Clem Snide in a tour which took them to about a dozen Spanish cities to celebrate the anniversary of the album The Ghost of Fashion. ■