Sometimes a song is so startlingly beautiful, it practically kicks you in the teeth. – It practically pops your tire. – The drama never ends. There’s a nail in the tire. I first saw Abraham Vazquez perform at the YouTube offices back in, like, 2019. At the time, he was one of a emerging generation of Mexican and Mexican American artists who are rethinking what regional Mexican music could evolve into. Since then, he’s had a really, really robust career. He’s got 10-plus albums, but this new song, “Se Apagó la Luz,” is something totally different. So this is a really, really sad song. I feel you, my guy. Abraham Vazquez, has this lusty, powerful, aching voice. This song is about loss, and you feel it with every inch of intensity that he’s performing. In the years after Abraham Vazquez debuted, regional Mexican music expanded, reshaped into corridos tumbados. Stars like Fuerza Regida, Natanael Cano, Peso Pluma took it around the world. What’s different about this Abraham Vazquez song, and really, this whole E.P., which is incredibly beautiful, is it has way more to do with acoustic folk musicians, like a Noah Kahan, or dare I say, even a Zach Bryan, than it does with the traditional corridos sounds that he grew up playing. I listen to this song a lot, but the truth is I don’t have that much to say about it. What I can tell you is you have to listen to it, and I hope someone’s there to hold you while you’re doing it.
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