Miss Caffeina: "People who had no relationship with music before the pandemic continue without having it"

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With

, the name of her latest album,

premieres at the WiZink Center on April 23.

Before, they have dedicated Easter to preparing together with

the return of

, the musical show "without prejudice or labels" that united them on stage in 2020 and that returns this summer completely renewed.

"Let's see what comes out!", sighs

, vocalist of the group, while having a coffee with milk in a cafeteria in La Latina.

Next to him,

keyboards, synthesizer, guitar - does the same with a cut.

"The intention is to try to release a

together. And if something else comes out, then something else," he sums up.

Precisely, the success of his tour with Varry Brava just before the pandemic causes the memory of those concerts to now act as a stimulus.

"

. And the concerts themselves were very cool. It was not a concert of one and the other, but a fusion between the two. And it was the last concert for many people from La Coruña, Madrid, Barcelona and Murcia. They have told us a lot throughout the pandemic: my last concert was

. Maybe they remember it better than it was," jokes Jiménez, who, however, "resists" believing that he has changed the musical tastes with the Covid.

"Whenever we have been asked 'do you think people have known music during confinement'.

.

And those who had a lot of relationship have valued it and enjoyed it even more.

I don't think that by being locked up a new love for music or a new way of understanding it has been born, "he explains. Although he does believe that the business has changed. "When a festival has been taken away, many people have realized that it was cool a lot, that moved a lot of people."

For his part, Sastre considers that what is missing is a return to normality.

"It's like we've gone into a tunnel, come out, and the context is completely different. Like things are aligned and working a little differently. What's missing to stabilize it is a normal festival cycle

A normal summer and that everything be put online: as we knew it or as it will be.

. Festivals were the motivation of many people, the excuse to organize their vacations, their outings, their meetings with friends. It was like a backbone for many people, to do something in common."

Alberto Jiménez, singer of Miss Caffeina. ADRIÁN ROMERO / REVELAB STUDIO

Both components of Miss Caffeina (

could not attend the meeting) are focused on one goal: that the WiZink Center be a concert "that is remembered on its own merits".

concert in the Riviera?'

. I hope that happens at WiZink too, because without a doubt, this is our best tour: for the repertoire, for the scenery, for everything. It is the closest thing we have always wanted to a show" .

"We have set WiZink as the standard for what we would like our concerts to be. Then each site has certain conditions, certain spaces. But we have put together a show with it in mind. The whole tour and the whole concept is thought with the core in that concert at the WiZink very recorded for us.

in visuals, in scenery. I am with Alberto: I think people will remember it fondly when happened," adds Sastre.

Sergio Sastre, founding member of Miss Caffeina. ADRIÁN ROMERO / REVELAB STUDIO

The year 2021 was complicated for the band.

Nothing seemed to be in favor.

The first songs of the last album had to be done separately.

And the following ones were recorded in the middle of a summer tour.

"

it. But in the end, if you have the songs and you are sure that what you have is good, the album comes out. I think it is a very good album and it came out the best it could come out. But it has been a very stressful," confesses Jiménez.

And the partner nods at him.

"It's one of those experiences where you say: 'It's great to meet her, but if I don't need to repeat it again, the better.'

"Spontaneous", "fresh" or "the result of what we had time to do" are some of the definitions dedicated to

, an album with "more guitar, less electronics" since the first demos.

"But I wouldn't say it's more pop," says the group's vocalist.

"It has stayed that way because we haven't allowed ourselves to turn things around 400 times, do and redo," says Sastre, who also works as a composer and producer for other artists such as

or

and in April 2021 he presented his first solo single,

, under the name of

.

"The other day I was watching an interview with

in which he said he affirmed that he continued to believe in the disco concept, because ordered and listening to the sonority of the songs, people have received the set better than the individual singles.

And I think that a bit of the same has happened to us in our measure," Jiménez maintains. "

Who is interested in this?

The whole puzzle still has value.

Consumption habits and how companies and social networks expose them do not help them value the complete puzzle.

But people who do have an interest and a passion for music do, "says his partner.

"It's not that we move well in the chaos, but we do adapt quickly to the things that happen to us. Fortunately or unfortunately, things have happened to us throughout our career," says Jiménez, referring, among others things, to the goodbye of the guitarist

, who left the group in February.

"It was there even before the album came out. It's part of it. And of everything," she points out.

His departure has been a great emotional burden.

And although they maintain the friendship, they have had to start working without pause.

"We adapt well to this type of thing. What would we prefer not to happen? Yes. That we would like to have all the time to think and do things more slowly? Yes. But we also know how to do it in another way. And that until it doesn't happen to you, you don't learn it", points out Jiménez, to which Sastre concludes with a final reflection: "

".

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