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Rosalía's album LUX and the search for the sacred in a distracted age
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Alex Noel2025-11-26T04:29:00
Writer Alex Noel argues that Rosalía’s LUX isn’t just an album but a rare modern work reaching for the sacred. In a distracted age, she sees it as a call back to wonder, devotion, and light.
If there was ever an album to inspire devotion, it would be LUX by Rosalía. Since its release on November 7th, it has been received to rapturous applause. And not for the reasons you might expect. LUX (which means ‘light’ in Latin) doesn’t tick a set of boxes guaranteed to win over audiences or aim to please an algorithm. Instead, it is a singular album - set apart - even from Rosalía’s own previous work. It is also now the highest charting album ever in the UK for a Spanish female artist.
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