New LP by Sereias: The Odyssey of Carlos Bizarro
March 16, 2026
The new LP by Sereias is now available on vinyl and on digital platforms (Bandcamp, Apple Music and Tidal). The Odyssey of Carlos Bizarro will be presented live on April 23 and 24 at the Lovers & Lollypops venue in Porto, with tickets on sale at dice.fm.
Another spell cast by Sereias #weareallariel
In The Odyssey of Carlos Bizarro, the Porto-based group Sereias digs deeper into its relationship with sonic narrative, allegory, and a sense of social critique. They have built an album in the form of a life journey. It is an unstable crossing, poised between collapse and possibility. This is a record that inhabits the disenchantment of a forceful, lucid, and fierce imagination. Like the sirens themselves, the group presents itself as an ambiguous figure existing on the border between the human and the non-human; the real and the fable; the siren and the monster. This album sings from a place that can become dangerous: that of the lucid awareness of existence in/of a world that prefers noise. In mythic history, sirens were not merely symbols of seduction, but were also seen as guardians of a kind of knowledge forbidden to the masses. Whoever listened to their song was confronted with themselves — that is, with their desires and with the fragility of their existence. It is within this gesture and narrative that we inscribe this album. Sereias cry out to a saturated present, calling it to attention while diverting it from its automatic course, forcing it to face the social, political, and emotional drift that has become an everyday banality. Carlos Bizarro, as a wandering and drifting figure, emerges almost as an anti-hero walking through recognizable landscapes of precarity, disillusionment, and anti-logic. In this sense, his lived odyssey is not epic in an archaic sense, but profoundly contemporary. This person lives in a world made up of promises of a future that is constantly postponed — and never more than today has this been the daily reality of a large part of society. Thus, dystopia is not a distant scenario, but rather an established condition: a way of life. The collapse of the world has already happened; we are the ones who do not want to see it. Worse still: we want to normalize that collapse. That is why this new work enters into dialogue with the group’s previous trajectory; after all, in O País a Arder (2018), fire and flames were metaphors for a country on the verge of social and political combustion. In Sereias (2022), the group asserted an aesthetic and discursive identity, consolidating a language of its own within the Portuguese (sub)field of experimental, alternative, and politically engaged (post-)rock. Now, in The Odyssey of Carlos Bizarro, the work appears before me as a third inevitable movement: denser, where urgency gives way to a more bitter critical observation, yet freer. Like the sirens who inhabited the margins and dangerous zones of river currents, this album positions itself in a liminal territory. This is an album about listening, and equally about the risk of doing so. At a time when everything competes for attention, Sereias insist on the urgency of artistic-musical creation as a political-poetic gesture that reminds us that, even in dystopian times, narrating this world of chaos, inequality, and cruelty is a profoundly political act.
Paula Guerra
Porto and Braga, February 2026