''Seis'' is the seventh

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by Chilean and Mexican singer and songwriter

Mon Laferte Norma Monserrat Bustamante Laferte (born 2 May 1983) better known as Mon Laferte, is a Chilean and Mexican musician, singer, songwriter and painter. Her musical style is diverse, spanning across different genres such as pop, rock, bolero, cu ...

. It was released on 8 April 2021 through

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. It was produced by Manu Jalil, who also produced ''

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'', and Sebastián Aracena, and featured collaborations with Mexican singers

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and

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, and Mexican bandas La Arrolladora Banda El Limón de René Camacho and Mujeres del Viento Florido. At the

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, the album won Best Singer-Songwriter Album, the song "Que Se Sepa Nuestro Amor" was nominated for Song of the Year and Best Regional Song and the song "La Mujer" was nominated for Best Pop Song. At the

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, the album was nominated for Best Regional Mexican Music Album (including Tejano), being Laferte's first Grammy award nomination.

Background

Laferte found inspiration for the album from

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music and also after watching the documentary ''Chavela'' about Costa Rican-born Mexican singer

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, with whom she felt a connection due to both having the life story of coming to

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as an immigrant and living in

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. The album explores themes of power, desire and womanhood in song such as "Se Me Va la Vida" ("My Life is Running Out") alongside the banda Mujeres del Viento Florido, which is about Chilean women prisoners and "La Mujer" ("The Woman") with

, which according to Laferte, started as a "toxic" song but was re-written afterwards and turned into a song about "ending a relationship and the survival instinct", describing it as a "healing process". The album title, ''Seis'' (six in Spanish), refers to the fact that the album is her sixth under the name Mon Laferte; however, it is actually her seventh album overall since her first studio album, '' La Chica de Rojo'' (2003), was released under her legal name, Monserrat Bustamante.

Singles

The first single was "Que Se Sepa Nuestro Amor" with

, released on 17 September 2020. The second single, "Se Me Va A Quemar El Corazón", was released on 21 January 2021. "La Mujer", a collaboration with

was released on 7 April 2021 as the third single.

Critical reception

Thom Jurek from

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gave the album four out of five stars, naming the album a "milestone" alongside ''

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'' in Laferte's career, he also wrote that "each track is delivered with the consistency, care, honesty, and obsessive attention to detail that Laferte's poetic lyrics and melodies require", ending the review with "the humble presentation here contrasts with her songwriting ambition in what amounts to a truly visionary work of popular art". ''Seis'' was ranked at number 14 in the list for "The 35 Best Spanish-Language and Bilingual Albums of 2021" by the American magazine ''

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'', calling it "impressively textured".

Track listing

All tracks are produced by Manú Jalil and Sebastián Aracena.

References

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