Goya - Smak Słów

Band/artist - Goya
Genre(s) - Chamber pop
Origin - Poland
Album - Smak Słów
Year of release - 2005

Somewhere in history, the Polish have come to be stigmatised as being an unsubtle kind of people, but proponents of this generalisation probably never listened to Goya. Their name, I presume, is based on one of the more interesting painters in history, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, which is what secured my attention on them. The band plays calm, elegant pop revolving mostly around piano/keyboards and Magdalena Wójcik's beautiful vocals, and I find it to be very soothing to my agitated senses! There's a sense of longing in her voice and in some of the better piano melodies, but the album is not really sad, per se. I guess you'll just have to like it, to like it.

1. Mój
2. West
3. East
4. Smak słów
5. Trudne pytania
6. Jak...
7. Wiem
8. Było mineło
9. Spiesz się
10. Nie potrzeba mi nic
11. Posłuchaj
    

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