Manel is perhaps the most successful Catalan music group of the moment. In a little less than a decade of activity, it has managed to cross once insurmountable barriers and enjoys a wide following even outside Catalonia. Not in vain, few bands can boast of having been number 1 in Spain without singing in Spanish or English. After reaching number 1 on the Official Sales Chart (physical and streaming) with Per la bona gent (Ceràmiques Guzmán, 2019) and becoming the only artist to achieve this on four consecutive occasions with albums sung in Catalan, MANEL began a tour that would be fatally interrupted by the pandemic. Far from settling in, the band returned to the stage in mid-2020 with the best show of their career and took the opportunity to top off three unreleased songs.

Produced by New Yorker Jake Aron, L’amant malalta is more (much more) than an appendix of his bet -always risky and radically contemporary- for the combination of tradition and electronica: it is a step forward that expands the boundaries of his pop open to hip hop, R&B, synthesizers and everything you can imagine. The first EP in the career of Guillem Gisbert, Martí Maymó, Roger Padilla and Arnau Vallvé is intertwined live with a repertoire that is already history. A story that, beyond its half a thousand concerts throughout the Iberian geography, but also in places as diverse as the United States, Argentina, Mexico, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Germany and the Philippines, has only just begun.