YENDRY Releases Debut Album Como Agua

YENDRY released her debut album Como Agua on September 18. Since 2021, she has completed a COLORS studio session and a Tiny Desk home concert, joined international tours and reached millions of streams. Como Agua was made with the aim of returning to music and rediscovering her love for it.

The album contains 13 songs and explores family, migration, homesickness, romantic relationships and the loneliness that comes from living between countries. La Bendición opens the album with the rhythm of Dominican palo music, while Mala Mía examines YENDRY's emotional unavailability in a past relationship.

The Italian-language ballad Un dolore raro reflects YENDRY's interest in the Italian songwriting tradition and artists including Raffaella Carrà and Luigi Tenco. YENDRY worked with London-born producer Blue May to help shape the album. While growing up in Italy, she was interested in British groups including Radiohead, Björk and Massive Attack.

On Como Agua, YENDRY chose to leave her vocals raw rather than use Auto-Tune and built the arrangements around percussion, strings and musicians playing together. She will appear at NPR's actual Tiny Desk on Tuesday, September 22.