Reality Show’ is an album determined to offer, through good songs, a clear-sighted radiography of today’s society, the same one that is sometimes absurd and full of tics. Apps and social networks, exploitation at work, trash TV and heart programmes and, of course, love (or lack of it) and sex. Everything has a place in compositions with a dynamic, at times almost jovial aspect, which (in stark contrast) harbour a much more direct and less veiled narrative than on previous occasions, with an argument of fine sarcasm guiding the matter. A foundation on which pieces such as “Sexo, mar y sol”, the insightful “La audiencia decide”, “Cobarde” (with its striking initial synthesizers), “Universidad”, the beautiful nostalgia included in “El detector”, “Luis”, that potential hit “Pulgarcito”, “Falsos autónomos” or the final “Margarita” stand out.

Luque has surrounded himself with a band of proven professionals that includes Dani Vega, Miquel Sospedra, Xavi Molero, Josep Vilagut and Georgina Wolkowicz (those backing vocals…), to work conscientiously on the instrumental side of things and perpetrate that proud sound that subsists throughout the album, while at the same time bringing a contemporaneity that favours it. Reality Show’ is a compendium of catchy songs that, among those selected, includes the majority of potential singles, materialising one of the most rounded references (at least as far as obvious targets are concerned) of the Sevillian. An LP that at the same time reaffirms the timeless validity of Antonio Luque as a sovereign author who, fortunately, continues to focus on his own thing while fashions don’t even touch him. At least when it comes to composing with freedom and putting his accurate eye on any subject he decides to deal with in the space that a song lasts.