Comfortably the best album by a Chilean singer songwriting theatrical stage designer that I've heard this year, Mr Miracles' solo debut, "Vacaciones En El Patio De Mi Casa", is an absolute belter. Just like the smattering of Spanish language songs which crop up on Devendra Banhart's albums, you don't have to be able to understand what he's going on about to enjoy them. There's just the one English track, "The Way", although he does offer a cover of Guns N Roses' "Don't Cry" on his MySpace page along with a number of tracks that don't make it onto the album. Album highlights are: "Mi Ciudad" which builds from a sparse acoustic opening, chucks in a bit of bass drum, tambourine and a simple picked riff that is just terribly catchy; the magnificent "Cancion del Rey Planta" - two videos of which are to be found on YouTube, not a lot happens in either of them but they're still strangely enjoyable; and the final track, "Rio", which is just too good not to be heard by more than a handfull of people in Santiago.
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