You Can't Win, Charlie Brown - Diffraction Refraction 2013

Coming from Portugal "Diffraction / Refraction" , You Can not Win , Charlie Brown' second album released by Pataca Discos in 2011 , is a much more challenging than  the group's debut album hard " Chromatic ". If it is true that this new disk found a good part of the vocabulary already highlighted in previous work (exemplarily constructed vocal harmonies , combining folk and electronic elements , diverse rhythms , building almost symphonic environments), we find that now all this was brought to levels even more sophisticated . Even unexpected . The structures are more complex, away from the typical constructive simplicity of pop music, the sonic palette is broader and dense vocal harmonies expand into new territories, the voice of Afonso Cabral (main vocalist) shows greater maturity and expressive capabilities, and instrumental solutions are more inventive . " Diffraction / Refraction " is a sumptuous disc, laboriously constructed.

The YCWCB are now a band in complete mastery of their language. To tell this immense rolling stage this past two years, with some high points: a national mini-tour in the company of Wands, a roomfull at Cinema São Jorge, participation in Optimus Primavera Sound 2012, two shows at the South by Southwest, Texas, the interpretation of the album "the Velvet Underground & Nico" in two concerts (BlackBaloon @ Lux, Lisbon and Spring Club, CCVF, Guimarães) and also in the registry 'live-in-the-studio' Live @ 15A.

"Diffraction / Refraction" was produced by the band, recorded and mixed entirely in studios 15A (Pataca Discos). With the collaboration of James Sousa (sound engineering) during the recording sessions, was mixed by Luis "Walter Benjamin" Nunes and mastered by Rafael Toral.

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