Clothing presents “La Muerte en Realidad no Existe”:

Today, Mexico City-based artist Clothing, aka Santi Ropa, shares  debut album La Muerte en Realidad no Existe out today on Tin Angel. Inspired by personal trauma, and Ropa’s own experience of growing up queer either side of the US-Mexico border in the era of Trump, the album is an intimate, heart-rending Bildungsroman disguised as a fantastical, gunslinging cowboy epic.

Recorded over a year and a half in Mexico City, in the makeshift home studio of producer Hector Tosta (I. La Católica), alongside collaborator Mabe Fratti (cello, backing vocals), the album is performed entirely in Ropa’s native Spanish. Across these tracks, Ropa and their collaborators boldly run the gamut from goth to Mexican folk to early Scott Walker inspired chamber pop and somehow squeeze much more in between, crafting a sound which Ropa dubs ‘Bubblegoth'.