Marinero

Marinero (aka singer/songwriter Jess Sylvester) began life as a woozy bedroom indie band with Latin influences, then grew to something much more musically involved with a sound that paid homage to influences as wide as Broadcast, Carole King, Los Pasteles Verdes, and Ennio Morricone. After initial releases that had a noisier approach like 2018's High Tone, Sylvester began refining and expanding the group sound into something intimate and subdued (2019's TRÓPICO DE CÁNCER) and on 2021's Hella Love, as artfully arranged as a Beach Boys album, only with plenty of soft Latin sounds mixed in. La La La (2025) is his third album as Marinero, crafting themes about sobriety, identity, and fantasy that is playfully named both for the city that helped shape it and the sophisticated pop it contains.