Patti Smith Features on New Rosalía Album with Rousing Message

Rosalía’s fourth studio album, the divinely affected LUX, unfolds in four parts and 13 languages, with several choirs contributing to this miraculous feat, an avant-garde chart-topper. A sonic scripture of desire and ruin, it accordingly invokes God and, at one point, an art world deity: Patti Smith.A 1976 interview recording of Smith closes the flamenco ballad “La Yugular.” In it, Rosalía sings about a love she’d destroy hell for. Smith, whose transcendent