xenia rubinos

Artist: Xenia Rubinos

Album: Magic Trix

Xenia Rubinos’s debut album Magic Trix lays out its niftiest tactics quickly — many of them within the five minutes of its opening song Help.  Her lilting voice, which by later in the album will suggest to me Bjork as a rowdy young NYC Latina, starts out cautiously by itself, picking its way up scales like Little Engine up a big hill: “My name is Rosa/ I live under the bridge/ […]