tINI - un mechón de pelo (2024) [Hi-Res]

The creative process helped me to understand what was going on with myself,” TINI tells Apple Music. “Working in the recording studio also contributed to the healing.” During most of 2023, the Buenos Aires star came to terms with one of the toughest battles a person can go through: an inner conflict. “I had become like a cup that’s filled with wounds, and my father’s problems—a serious medical condition that landed him in intensive care—was the shock that overflowed the cup. I finally understood what my depression and anxiety were all about, the fears and all the questions that could not be answered.”

As a result, un mechón de pelo is not only Martina Stoessel’s most personal album to date, but also a testament to her inner salvation, filled with internal monologues, metaphors, dedications, and the intervention of her loved ones. “Here’s to the storm that torments you/And yet it’s nothing but a lock of hair” (“Por la tormenta que, aunque te atormenta, es un mechón de pelo”), she sings on one of the tracks, an allegory about finding renewal after darkness. Here, TINI guides us through the album, track by track.