{"id":2130149,"date":"2025-11-02T09:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T09:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2130149"},"modified":"2025-11-02T09:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T09:14:07","slug":"review-alvaro-soler-plays-it-too-sale-on-el-camino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/review-alvaro-soler-plays-it-too-sale-on-el-camino\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Alvaro Soler plays it too sale on &#8216;El Camino&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Alvaro Soler might not be a hugely recognisable name here in the UK but in wider Europe and Latin America, he\u2019s achieved incredible success. The 34-year-old Spanish singer has three studio albums under his belt \u2013 \u2018Eterno Agosto\u2019 (2015), \u2018Mar de colores\u2019 (2018) and \u2018Magia\u2019 (2021) \u2013 and his breakthrough debut single \u2018El mismo sol\u2019, released in 2015, was re-recorded as a duet with Jennifer Lopez. Four years on from \u2018Magia\u2019, Soler is back with fourth studio album \u2018El Camino\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018El Camino\u2019 (\u2018The Road\u2019 in English) features 16 tracks (well, 14 really if you exclude the brief \u2018Intro\u2019 and \u2018Outro\u2019) and it sees Soler combining Latin pop with folk and wider influences from world music. \u2018Distancia\u2019 (\u2018Distance\u2019) opens the record and it\u2019s a folk-pop song that allows Soler\u2019s smooth voice to drive the melody. The chorus sees him using his falsetto to great effect and the song is a catchy start. \u2018Ap\u00e1game\u2019 (\u2018Turn Me Off\u2019) ups the tempo slightly, mixing Spanish rhythms with a steady pop beat. It brings to mind the likes of Latin stars Sebastian Yatra and Maluma, and it\u2019s a perfectly enjoyable song even if it\u2019s not wholly original.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alvaro Soler - Santa Alegr\u00eda (Official Visualizer)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/je6TV6c9gwU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Soler is at his strongest on songs like \u2018Santa Alegria\u2019 (\u2018Holy Joy\u2019), where he puts a modern spin on classic Spanish sounds. This is the kind of song that could be a great single and honestly it\u2019s one of the best tracks on the record. \u2018Regalo\u2019 (\u2018Gift\u2019) that follows is another example of Soler at his best, even if it does sound a little too much like its predecessor. \u2018Lo Que Pas\u00f3, Pas\u00f3\u2019 (\u2018What Happened, Happened\u2019) featuring Marta Santos sounds a little too generic as does \u2018Artificial\u2019 (\u2018Artificial\u2019), which is too middle of the road to really leave an impact.<\/p>\n<p>The album\u2019s latter half does have some highlights. The up-tempo \u2018Con Calma\u2019 (\u2018Calmly\u2019) is almost a home run until the over-used whistle riff comes in, \u2018Dicen\u2019 (\u2018They Say\u2019) is a welcome stripped-down moment that allows Soler\u2019s voice to really shine, and \u2018Jard\u00edn De Los Recuerdos\u2019 (\u2018Garden of Memories\u2019) shows that less production is definitely more for the singer. To often the album tries to chase trends and in the process of doing so, Soler loses what makes him so special.<\/p>\n<p>Four albums in and Soler plays it a little bit too safe on \u2018El Camino\u2019. There\u2019s nothing wrong with the record, and it\u2019s a perfectly enjoyable listen, but there\u2019s nothing here that really wows. When Latin music is being dominated by stars like Bad Bunny, Maluma, Manuel Turizo and Sebastian Yatra, other artists in the genre need to up their game. Spain\u2019s Pablo Alboran has managed to maintain plenty of success by switching up his sound, and it might be about time that Soler followed suit. \u2018El Camino\u2019 is a well-crafted and enjoyable record, it just needed that extra oomph to break through.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Track list:<\/strong> 1. Intro 2. Distancia 3. Ap\u00e1game 4. Te Imaginaba 5. Santa Alegria 6. Regalo 7. Lo Que Pas\u00f3, Pas\u00f3 (feat. Marta Santos) 8. Mejor Que Yo 9. Artificial 10. Con Calma 11. Cero (feat. Namayana Women\u2019s Choir) 12. Dicen 13. Buena Vida 14. Electricidad 15. Jard\u00edn De Los Recuerdos 16. Outro <strong>Record label:<\/strong> Sony Music Entertainment <strong>Release date:<\/strong> 10<sup>th<\/sup> October 2025 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4oqoLUB\"><strong>Buy \u2018El Camino\u2019 now<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This article contains an affiliate link. Purchases through this link may result in us earning a commission.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source entertainment-focus.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alvaro Soler might not be a hugely recognisable name here in the UK but in wider Europe and Latin America, he\u2019s achieved incredible success. The 34-year-old Spanish singer has three studio albums under his belt \u2013 \u2018Eterno Agosto\u2019 (2015), \u2018Mar de colores\u2019 (2018) and \u2018Magia\u2019 (2021) \u2013 and his breakthrough debut single \u2018El mismo sol\u2019, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2130150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2130149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Review-Alvaro-Soler-plays-it-too-sale-on-El-Camino.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2130149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2130151,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130149\/revisions\/2130151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2130150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2130149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2130149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2130149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}