Ivan Ferreiro - Mentiroso Mentiroso (CD)

All Music Guide

When the moment to see whether Iván Ferreiro will decide to leave rock behind arrives, on this third work Mentiroso Mentiroso (Liar Liar) he slightly changes the style and leaves the same uncertainty. By now, it seems the Galician artist does not aim to make a tailormade album for fans and confident in his talent of writing and peculiar great voice, he gives free rein to his imaginative creativity with the confidence of those who know that something good will come up (and of those who know that there will always be somebody to buy it, should be said). In Mentiroso Mentiroso, Iván Ferreiro gives the fans (literaly, since he put the album up on his personal web for a few days before its official release) a quasi conceptual albumcomicbook of sixteen songs (some of them outtakes from the shortlength previous work) in which the lie pervades the album as the main theme. Musically speaking, the album is characterized by a change of the band that used to accompany him on the first two albums a...nd above all, for the inclusion of another guitar and a piano, which gives it a different air from the other two where the balads dominated and the voice served as the main instrument and almost the only one. It appears that Iván Ferreiro decided to release his voice from the reponsibility of carrying all the weight (and unfortunately, the depth of his lyrics as well) and hand it over to the other instruments like in the song "Jet Lag", in which we clearly distinguish different guitars, soft drums, a trumpet and even a keyboard, or like in "Magia", where we even can hear a kind of a circus organ, but in both cases they don't go beyond goodsounding songs. The comicbook which encloses the first 10.000 copies of the album with illustrations of each song from different Spanish artists, find their way in the form of songs in "La Canción del No", "Suerte" and "Personalidad Múltiple" with continuous tossed off messages and intriguing sounds what, along with the absence of a chorus, create an atmosphere of a story that advances in different frames. However, the most remarkable thing on this album is, like on the other two, that the most brillant moments are those in which the rock sticks out like in "NYC" or "Canción Húmeda" (composed along with Leiva, Pereza's vocalist) what seems to corroborate the (perhaps reconciling) words of another of the album best songs, "Rocco Sigfredi", which states that "rock is always the best". We cannot be sure, given the album's title, if he is saying the truth or that we should forget the past of Iván Ferreiro and admit, even without offering the rock that made him famous, he still stuns with a talent that allows him to slip on a new mask as easily as the change of a new hat. - Alfonso Goiriz, All Music Guide Read more Less