Mena (album)

Mena is the second

At the end of 2010, iTunes Mexico named Mena "the breakthrough album that year".[3]

Track listing

Critical reception

The album was highly acclaimed in the Latin music critic community, earning the first (and, to date, only) perfect 100 rating at Club Fonograma,^[4] (however, Juana Molina's Un día had already achieved a five-star rating in 2008) and was later named the site's #1 album of 2010.^[5] The track "Luz de Piedra de Luna" was also named the site's single of the year for 2010.^[6] Mena also received a 4/5 rating from dance music website Resident Advisor, describing the album as an "aural cocktail volatile by nature, but stable and powerful in its finished form," and called the record's sound as "dance-pop for lovers".^[7]

Personnel

• Javiera Mena – Production, composition and arrangements, programming, synthesizers, guitar
• Cristián Heyne – Recording, mixing, programming, guitar, synthesizers
• Jim Brick – Mastering
• Pablo Bello – Strings recording
• Kelley Polar – Strings arrangement, strings recording
• Lara Pedrosa – Bass, backing vocals
• José Miguel Tobar – Strings arrangement
• Diego Morales – Programming
• Andrés Silva – Hihat, percussion
• Lido Pimienta – additional vocals
• Daniel Hunt – Synthesizers, sound treatment
• Jens Lekman – vocals
• Rod – Cover/artwork photography
• Alejandro Ros – Design

References