Beach Boys songs and a cop show: what you can't miss this week

The week that begins, with Jordi Garrigós

Some of the things we hope not to miss in the next seven days

I will listen Cass McCombs' new songs. After the catharsis thatHeartmind, an album heavily influenced by the deaths of three friends and former bandmates, the Californian releases a new album. We'll still have to wait a few weeks to hear it in full, but this delightful musician, who exquisitely combines pop, folk, and Americana, has already previewed the first two songs.PrietasandPeace These are two singles that show that continuity, in the case of the author ofBig Wheel and others, can be a great virtue.

 I'll start the series recommended by Alejandra Palés, ARA's leading series critic.Dept. Q,the new fiction by Scott Frank, creator of the hitQueen's Gambit. There are no bishops or pawns here, but police officers, detectives and various kinds of skewers. Starring Matthew Goode (Downton Abbey, The Good Wife), the series has the luxurious setting of being filmed in Edinburgh, and despite some clichés (the main role is played by a surly agent with unresolved traumas), the series succeeds. You can watch it on Netflix.

 I will buy the brand new 2025 Bookseller Prize for Young Adult Literature. It isThe skull, by Jon Klassen, one of the world's best-known illustrators, presents this Tyrolean legend about a girl who leaves home and arrives at a house in the middle of the forest. She encounters a skull with whom she forms a curious friendship. Thaïs Gutiérrez Vinyets

Notes on what we have seen, heard, tasted and, ultimately, experienced in the last seven days

I have gone let's see Everything will be fine, a film by Ray Yeung that begins with a legal problem—the lack of a will among an elderly female couple in Hong Kong—which ends up becoming the trigger for the dramatic plot, as the widow faces the harsh reality of seeing that legally she has no rights and everything falls to her in-laws. With this premise, the film presents us with the complexity of family relationships, the rights of LGBTQ+ people, housing as a refuge and solace, and friendship as the last refuge when everything falls apart. A tender and moving portrait.

We have done a tasting of the Sant Joan cakes prepared at the Brunells bakery to celebrate the festival.

I have bought A promising future, the third installment of Pierre Lamaitre's trilogy about the Pelletier family.

I couldn't stop thinking about the songs of Brian Willson, soul of the Beach Boys, who died last weekWilson changed the history of pop music with his luminous melodies, evoking the halcyon days of California summers, though they emerged from a tormented soul, the fruit of his tyrannical father's abuse and a troubled relationship with drugs that distanced him from singing. They are part of the soundtrack of our lives.

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