"Ven a mis brazos" is the third advance song taken from "Presto y con Toda la Fuerza", the new album by PAPA TOPO to be released on 25 April 2025
“Ven a mis brazos” is the third advance single from PAPA TOPO’s second album, “Presto y con Toda la Fuerza”. This new single, which initially seems like a love song, is really about the constant apocalyptic feeling we have in today’s world. Adrià started writing it on March 14, 2020 (the day before the Spanish confinement started) and it is somehow a farewell letter to the world as we know it. The threat of a pandemic, the rise in the far-right, the dawn of AI, the spread of disinformation on social networks and climate change and its catastrophic consequences make it feel like the world as we know it is coming to an end, that the end is near, a paradigm shift is sending us into dark and terrifying unknown territory. The song repeats the cry “ven a mis brazos” (let me hold you) and claims that love for our fellow loved ones is the only thing that can protect us from this new dystopian world. Musically, however, it is quite possibly the happiest, poppiest song on the album and it reminds us of ABBA at their most Eurovision-esque.
We will be able to hear the whole album very soon, and it is the most ambitious and complex PAPA TOPO album yet, a collection of songs where diverse influences like classic impressionism, dance music, pop, punk, folklore, cuplé, and atonal music all coexist. All of that topped with elegant and complex string and wind arrangements.
