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who?
Mexico-based singer/songwriter/producer Mauricio Castillo makes dreamy, R&B-influenced indie pop under the name Ice Cream Boy. While essentially a solo project, Ice Cream Boy features Jazz instrumentalist for live presentations. Ice Cream Boy’s songs are stripped down and dreamlike, often inspired by pop and R&B. The project made its debut in 2019 with Chocolate, Vanilla & Tequila. Subsequent albums such as 2020’s Changes incorporated more electronics and experimentation, and nowdays are even more synthezised Castillo’s sounds.
Castillo began recording by himself and releasing Ice Cream Boy songs through online distributors.
where?
live at la moderna 2022
live at feelings night club 2018
live at rubia morena forum 2019
acoustic solo live set at tierra luna 2020
online presence
Castillo´s method for distributing his music is mainly through visually atractive elements such as “I´m cyborg but that´s ok” video edits for his songs “Changing” and “Ice Cream Boy” which have gathered over
blogs
The project from Mexico presents us with “Changing” a song he made thinking about the lives of my friends going through a lot of personality changes, combining sounds of Indie Pop, Shoegaze, sweet guitar riffs that make you immerse yourself in sugar of the project.
Perhaps I am stretching things a tad with the whole ‘new music’ concept considering this album was released in Feb 2020. However, the ‘Wake In June style flirtation with Post-punk atmospherics, meets glorious jangled riffs aesthetic’, is just too good to ignore based of mere technicalities like time !
“Without significant changes in your life it can mean that you are not growing. Sung in Spanglish, the singer-songwriter from Mexico, Ice Cream Boy, tells us about all the personality changes he went through in 2019. These songs with simple lyrics and catchy melodies tell us about the life of a normal teenager, Mauricio, and how growing up affects him”