In keeping with Humbe, it doesn’t matter how unhealthy his day goes — a pink sundown can change the whole lot.
As a child rising up within the Mexican metropolis of Monterrey, the singer-songwriter would hunt down the sky’s strangest shapes and research the way in which mild broke by means of the cloud formations — it might consolation his anxieties and supply inventive inspiration. So, when he got down to end his most up-to-date LP, “Dueño del Cielo,” launched on Saturday, he discovered himself in one of many few locations the place the solar by no means really units: Iceland within the summertime.
“I envision this album as this planet of ashes. So, I wished to enter that state, be lonely and create the interior dialogue heard on the album,” stated the singer of his sixth album.
Humbe has been taking part in music from a younger age, however he first rose to fame in the course of the pandemic, sharing snippets of his music-making course of on-line. Following the discharge of his breakout debut album in 2021, “Entropía,” the choice pop singer earned a Latin Grammy for brand spanking new artist and has since grow to be well-known for his 2023 single “Fantasmas.” The observe honors his late grandpa for Día de los Muertos and tends to go viral every year across the vacation.
“Dueño del Cielo” is the ultimate installment of a trilogy, following 2023’s “Esencia” and 2024’s “Armagedón.” Almost each observe on the most recent launch indicators transformation, in each its lyricism and its sonics. On the opening music, “Luz de Luna,” he gushes about not desirous to miss somebody over a heartfelt piano ballad that slips between punky guitar rifts and unpredictable 808 drums. Whereas on tracks like “Harry Stamper” and “Sábanas,” he embraces whimsical synthesizers and staccato vocal patterns to create a mystical soundscape.
On a latest promo journey to Los Angeles, De Los caught up with the 25-year-old Latin different pop singer within the days earlier than the discharge of “Dueño del Cielo.” Humbe will probably be embarking on his first-ever U.S. tour subsequent 12 months, and can play on the Wiltern on April 9.
This interview has been condensed and edited for readability.
“Dueño del Cielo” is out in a couple of days. How are you feeling about its launch?
It’s surreal. I’ve been engaged on it for 5 years, so I can’t imagine it. I began writing it in the beginning of the pandemic. The primary music was the title observe, and it was a music that embodied a lot in me. It’s a rebirth and a second of progress. “Dueño del Cielo” typically represents resurrection. I’ve at all times been so hooked up to my present model. I at all times assume, if I like who I’m proper now, I’ll need to keep on with it and by no means change. That’s when frustration comes.
This album taught me that change is a part of life in one of the simplest ways attainable.
This album can also be the ultimate installment in a sequence, following “Esencia” and “Armagedón.” When did you understand you had a trilogy in your palms?
It feels just like the universe spoke it [into existence] in a manner. Generally issues can’t solely be coincidences. I noticed all three albums had been meant to be a trilogy, as a result of they’re all albums that primarily have fun life.
“Esencia” is an album that celebrates the essence of 1’s self. “Armagedón” represents how somebody or one thing like a relationship or an habit can change your entire essence. At first, it might probably appear identical to a capturing star, however then you definately understand it’s a f— asteroid that’s gonna kill you. Then “Dueño del Cielo” is me discovering and regaining that essence. It’s about realizing that from the ashes you possibly can nonetheless be born.
What was occurring in your life when determining the right way to finish this sequence?
I’ve been looking for interior happiness. I can’t even take into consideration a particular state of affairs, as a result of it’s truthfully only a entire bunch of issues that simply make one’s glass full. I used to be simply sick of the whole lot. I used to be falling in a despair state with out looking for out motivation.
However I noticed that the whole lot was resulting from me looking for one thing that possibly wasn’t misplaced. I noticed that life is about reinvention. It’s about deconstruction and reconstruction. That’s what I’ve been doing, and I’ll hold doing.
A portion of this upcoming album was made in a distant Icelandic city. When did Iceland come into the image?
My brother, his girlfriend and I had been in a sushi bar in Mexico Metropolis. We got here to the conclusion that we’re younger and that now we have free will. We figured I’ve been engaged on this album for 5 years, and haven’t completed it as a result of we’ve been so distracted with the whole lot else. So, why not reap the benefits of the truth that we’re younger, that none of us have children, that we are able to journey and that it’s about to be summer season in Iceland?
We purchased the tickets on the sushi bar and left. It was loopy. We went for a month and a half. It was summer season, so there was no darkness — solely pure daylight. The darkest it obtained was blue hours. Dwelling there was so poetic and delightful.
I envision this album as this planet of ashes. So, I wished to enter that state, be lonely and create the interior dialogue heard on the album. The album’s perspective modified a lot there. It turned so versatile.
How do you’re feeling you modified as a musician in Iceland?
I obtained a lot extra delicate in direction of the whole lot. I gained a lot perspective on how dwell devices change a music. I used to work quite a bit with plug-ins and sound libraries. However this time, the whole lot was recorded dwell.
After Iceland, we recorded the whole lot in Miami. We had been in a position to do the album in 10 days. Then, for the following three months, I saved discovering small particulars to repair, regardless that I knew I used to be completed. I had such a tough time letting it go that my mother needed to inform me to cease.
At what level within the course of did your mother should step in?
I uploaded the album on my method to the sound examine. Even on the day of my listening social gathering in Mexico, I used to be nonetheless making modifications to the album. That’s when my mother and the blending engineer instructed me that it was time to let it go.
She didn’t say it earlier than, so I suppose it wasn’t completed up till that very second.
There are 22 tracks on this album, making it your longest undertaking so far. Did you at all times know this was going to be a prolonged document?
I at all times wished to do an extended undertaking. I’ve had it on my thoughts since I used to be a child. I wished to do one thing like Aerosmith or Queen after they would launch these lengthy a— tasks that belonged to an idea, again when artists used to create ideas and create universes. That’s what I admired about artists, their capability to ask me someplace of their fictional world.
What sort of world do you assume you’re inviting folks into?
I’m inviting them to the sky. Since I used to be a child, that’s been a relentless in my life. I’ve at all times been hypnotized by the sky, by the sunshine and the way mild works with the clouds. Now I’m really in awe each time I see a pink sky or see a pleasant pair of clouds. It sounds silly, however you actually may have a s— day and finish it with a wonderful sundown. It may all change the way in which you’re feeling.
Have been there any sunsets you witnessed whereas making the album that influenced its sonic route?
There was this time in Iceland, once I was writing “Murallas.” It was so bizarre, as a result of the climate was so foggy and it felt like we had been in a cloud all day, however mid-session, it cleared up out of nowhere. It will definitely turned a wonderful sundown that lasted 4 hours. “Murallas” is such a tragic music, and I couldn’t hold writing about one thing so unhappy when it was so stunning outdoors. So, we stopped engaged on it and went outdoors to take pleasure in.
You began this three-album journey years in the past. Now, after ending its final installment, how do you assume making this music has modified you?
I’m a extra excited particular person about the whole lot. I’ve refound a baby in me that I assumed I’d misplaced in a manner. I actually thought he was gone, and I discovered him once more. I really feel rather more at peace as we speak. It’s so clear to me now that the whole lot modifications on a regular basis. That’s one thing this album taught me: I’m prepared for something.
