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- Summary: The latest full-length solo release from Queens, New York-based artist Juan Wauters was inspired by and recorded in Montevideo, Uruguay.
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- Record Label: Captured Tracks
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Jul 1, 2025It’s that excitement and the sincerity of Wauters’ creative mission that gives MVD LUV its inherent sweetness and makes it more than just another album of happy-go-lucky folk-pop numbers.
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MojoJul 1, 2025Catches the sense of wistful dislocation that comes with trying to go home again, the after-hours sidewalk cafe intimacy of Manejando Por Pando or Cancion Mama suggesting quiet reckonings and reorientations. [Aug 2025, p.83]
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Jul 7, 2025It would have been far easier to ignore these complications, play the lovable oddball, and put together an entertaining tour of his home city for outsiders. Instead, Wauters seems to have gone searching for his hometown and found his own reflection.
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UncutJul 1, 2025While the warm melodicism of "Dime Amiga" and the soulful "Ando Con Miedo" respectively suggest Gruff Rhys and Panda Bear as kindred spirits, folk rhythms define the exuberant centrepeiece, "La Lucia". [Aug 2025, p.39]
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Jul 1, 2025It’s tough to find a flow, and listeners are left wishing tracks like “If It’s Not Luv” and “Canción Mamá” were expanded upon—maybe group vocals from the street on the former and a spoken-word section over the latter?