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El lado oscuro 2025
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El lado oscuro

The dark side sounds like a Sunday morning with the radio on at random. Nina Suárez recorded it in 2025, but the album breathes as if it were born from those road trips along the coast, with the wind coming in through the window of a gray Gol she bought with the money from a film where she acted alongside her mother. The sound shifts between scratchy guitars and voices that crack, as if each song were a half-whispered dialogue between what is said and what is left unsaid. There’s something in the air that recalls those days when Argentina’s independent music scene was built in garages with whatever was at hand, but here everything sounds more intimate, as if Nina had recorded each take in her home, between rehearsals and dropped calls.

Year
2025
Songs
13
Duration
48 min 38 seg
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About the album

El lado oscuro, according to DoReSol

The album’s opening track, La salvación, starts with a riff that never quite settles, as if searching for the right beat. It’s the kind of song you listen to twice in a row without realizing it: the first time out of curiosity, the second because you’re already humming it without meaning to. Later on, Tiburón has the feel of those eighties horror films where the dread lingers in the silence before the strike, but with lyrics that speak to what drowns in the day-to-day. And amid it all, Última noche stands as a conclusion that doesn’t quite conclude, its melody fading like cigarette smoke in the dark.

What’s striking is how Nina achieved this sound without growing up in an environment where music was the center of everything. Her father, Fabio Suárez, was part of a band that influenced many in the nineties, but in her home, art always coexisted with austerity. She’s said herself that she learned to drive to be the first in her family to own a car, and that Gol with the Mar del Plata sticker became her mobile refuge between theater gigs, rehearsals, and recording sessions. The album doesn’t sound like a calculated product, but rather something that took shape between what is inherited and what is chosen to live.