Carín León ’s new album will be released May 30, and it won’t be business as usual, as the Mexican star exclusively tells Billboard . Boca Chueca Vol. 1 drops at 8 p.
m. ET on May 30, and features 19 songs, including bilingual collabs with country stars Kane Brown and Leon Bridges as well as Latin icons like ranchera star Pepe Aguilar and Mexican rockers Panteón Rococo. See the full tracklist for the first time below.
But the real change, says León, starts with the album cover, a surrealist painting that shows León’s face close up, with a sinister-looking hand holding his mouth open in a crooked grimace that is a direct reference to the album’s title; “Boca Chueca” translates to “Crooked Mouth.” And that title in turn represents the album’s contents, says León. See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “What we wanted to highlight on the cover was [.
..] all those problems you suffer as an artist who is always exposed,” León said in a voice note he sent to Bilboard .
“All those fears they carry from before. All that contributes to the music and the art we all make as artists. Making this album was like a small embrace and a conciliation with many things people think are bad, but that are also part of you.
The cover has that dark look which in a way has a lot to do with us and also speaks about the reinvention in this album. It has more daring words, more of a street vocabulary. Boca Chueca has a lot to do with th.