Victòria Vilalta wrapped up 2025 with her intimate album Out Loud Thoughts. Across nine tracks, best heard in the solitude of the early hours, Vilalta meditates on her emotions. Originally from Catalonia, now in London, it’s one of her most refined works to date.
A natural warmth from the acoustics, a slight frostiness to the vocals, you can read into the way Vilalta structures the sonic atmosphere. The vocal harmonies are occasionally resonant and otherworldly, other times loving and graceful. The instrumental, on the other hand, is deceptively complex, delivered with intention and an easy-going attitude, but brimming with sounds and rhythms that are constantly developing even across the album or even within a single track. Rooted in folky instincts, never boxed in by their stripped-back simplicity.
Vilalta explains, “‘Out loud thoughts’ was created in London studios. It was self-written and self-produced, relating the songs’ meanings to their sound. It entails collaborations with other musicians in writing some of the tracks and recording most of them. Each song conveys an emotion, ideas or values that are important to me. I always understood music as emotion.
The album was part of my master’s in Creative Music Production, and it explores acoustic sounds to processed ones throughout the songs. It was an experimentation of my creative identity through different sounds, expanding the limits of my previous work, which was more acoustic and folk.”
Debuting in 2022, but continuously growing from those early beginnings. Currently, with a tour on the books across the UK and Europe, Vilalta is expanding her horizons and cementing herself as a skilled songwriting talent.
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