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Xavi Proves He’s Música Mexicana’s ‘Next’ Breakthrough Star: Album Review
On Xavi's debut album 'Next,' the música mexicana star lives up to the challenge of evolving genre-bending corridos.
After signing to Interscope at 17 years old in 2022, the Mexican-American singer-songwriter used his label advance to buy a street racing truck that he ended up crashing, leaving him in a days-long coma with a fractured skull. The only new feature on the tracklist comes from Xavi’s brother and fellow Interscope artist Fabio Capri on the vengeful and borderline emo, “Tu Casi Algo” (“You’re Almost Something”), which has the buoyant flow of a pop-rock song but also double bass and rhythm guitars driving the pair’s nearly indistinguishable nasal voices as they harmonize, “Delete the pics / I already erased you completely from my life / and the withdrawal starts of your almost something.” The album starts off at high speed but drops to a slower pace that begins with “La Diosa,” where Xavi leans into softer vocal inflections about his all-consuming infatuation for a “goddess.”
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