D'Alva presents P'ÓDIO, the second single taken from BAD HITS, the second long-duration duo, less than a month from editing. Album hits stores on October 12th.
After the single Truth without Consequence edited in May, in a record that caught everyone unawares, and who occupied for months on the 1st place in radio tops such as Antena 3 or Radar, comes P'dio, a song that ironically begins with the phrase "... I do not aspire to this podium".
Musically closer to the sound universe of D'Alva, it immediately reveals some musical maturation, both in production and interpretation, and in a well-written script of #LLS: direct, seemingly relaxed and watered down to q.b. of irony.
"P'diodio addresses the anxiety that comes from exposing ourselves to criticism and scrutiny, and from what our relationship should be like to someone who" talks a lot and does nothing. "It is a" live and let live ", but something that extends beyond music and into everyday life and the present dynamics and social interactions. " explains Ben Monteiro.
If for many people D'Alva is synonymous with relaxation and lightness, the music video that accompanies this single reveals the intensity with which Alex D'Alva Teixeira, Ben Monteiro and other accompanying members give themselves to the shows and the public. The realization / production is again fully D.I.Y. by the hand of Ben Monteiro, in an above all documentary record, and which shows a truth that to a certain extent only the
D'Alva truly knew of themselves: well beyond hype, discs, songs, memes, likes , from the views, the D'Alva are understood live. If in studio by the hand of the production of Ben Monteiro the elasticity with which they jump of genre is unparalleled, the same thing happens live by the hand of the pure front-man that is Alex D'Alva Teixeira. It is impossible to misrepresent the frenzied energy, delivery and the way a group and audience become one, whether in a bandstand, a club, an auditorium or on a large festival stage - the result is invariably the same, no one remains indifferent as in fact portrays the video.
The D'Alva want to (re) define what they are, with "more action and less talk", and P'dio is another chapter that introduces us to their BAD HITS.
BAD HITS is the name of the duo's second studio effort that made National Pop independent. The title contains within itself a peculiar duality reflected in the songs, and perhaps revealing of what the duo has experienced in the last four years. In the good, in the bad, and in everything in between, Alex D'Alva Teixeira and Ben Monteiro found the expectations and the fear of failing. They dropped them, hugged him, and found themselves on a (still) sonically pop album, personal and honest, where they searched for songs that speak for themselves, more than the production or any other "fireworks".
For the cover of Bad Hits Art Direction was in charge of Bráulio Amado, the Portuguese artist based in New York who has given talk for the work developed for artists like Frank Ocean, Beck or Roisin Murphy among others. He was given total creative freedom and the result is a photographic composition representative of his interpretation of each of the songs that comprise this long duration. The photograph was in charge of Cristiana Morais who, in the distance, realized the vision of Braulio.
