Claude says:José González is a Swedish-Argentine folk singer from Gothenburg who traded a PhD in biochemistry for solo classical guitar — his parents fled Argentina's 1976 coup and settled in Sweden, where he grew up on Latin folk and Silvio Rodríguez. Against the Dying of the Light is hushed, precise fingerpicking with his soft vocal melody intact, the kind of minimal folk that rewards close listening without demanding it. You had a lone play back in January that didn't click, then dove in hard this April — the title track and "Ay Querida" are the ones you keep coming back to.