Lido Pimienta Goes 'Enya Mode' on New Album Caribenya
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- Lido Pimienta releases album Caribenya on July 17 via Anti-, recorded on her laptop using Ableton while taking her three kids to school and baking — her second album in two years following 2025's La Belleza
- Pimienta expresses alarm over Colombia's narrow presidential win for Abelardo de la Espriella, whose pro-fracking, pro-US platform drew praise from Donald Trump; she says leftwing artists would be 'target number one' under his government
- Her 2016 breakthrough La Papessa won Canada's Polaris prize, beating Leonard Cohen's You Want It Darker — the last album released during his lifetime — for the prestigious honor
- Pimienta names Enya as her creative template, admiring the Irish singer's decade-spanning reclusiveness and imagining 'what if Enya went to the Caribbean and partied with my Black and brown friends'
- She slams modern wealth culture: 'being a billionaire is so tacky,' adding that she misses the era when rich people built theatres — a stance that drives Caribenya track Toxica, aimed at a friend who told her to stop talking politics because she's fat
- Pimienta's Anti- contract expires after Caribenya with no future releases planned; she tours the US and Europe September through November, describing the album as 'the second side of a double album' with La Belleza
Why it matters: Pimienta, who beat Leonard Cohen for the 2016 Polaris prize, uses Caribenya as her final Anti-Records statement before her contract expires — making it both a dance record and a platform against Colombia's newly elected right, whose pro-fracking agenda was praised by Trump and could target outspoken leftwing artists like her.
