Blog: PopMatters

This is a music of moments rather than events, of transient impressions rather than big stories. It has the confidence and maturity to know that the everyday is as much a repository of memories as the eventual. When Os Mutantes released their wonderful English language version of Caetano Veloso's "Baby" in 1971, they provided a small but perfectly formed map of what made Anglo-Brazilian music so appealing, a cosmopolitan and knowing mix of different linguistic and musical cultures that did not let its potential cheesiness eclipse its utter cool. "You know, it's time now to learn Portuguese / It's [...]