Puerto Rican-born, London-based artist Ivelisse Del Carmen refuses easy categorisation, and her new single “Sin Filtro” makes that refusal sound like liberation, and we premiere it exclusively here at LOCK.
A bold fusion of reggaeton’s percussive heartbeat with orchestral strings, Spanish guitar, and operatic swells, the track pulls the genre into new territory: not the dancefloor, but the confessional.
What emerges is a piece of music that holds intimacy and spectacle in the same breath. The drums insist on motion, grounding the song in Caribbean tradition, while the strings and choral textures lift it into something cinematic and searching. Del Carmen’s voice, trained in classical technique yet steeped in Puerto Rican rhythm, moves between vulnerability and defiance, at once raw and refined.
Lyrically, “Sin Filtro” grapples with ego, doubt, and the fear of rejection, delivered with an honesty rarely heard in reggaeton. “My ego, the spider, afraid to get hurt,” she sings, framing fragility not as weakness but as a radical act of openness. That sense of reclamation runs through the track — where once the genre was stigmatised and censored, Del Carmen turns it into a vessel for reflection and self-definition.
Produced by long-time collaborator Paul Stanborough (Tina Turner, Kylie Minogue, Robbie Williams), the single feels carefully sculpted but never over-polished, its layers of percussion, guitar, and orchestration expanding and contracting with deliberate tension. It’s a sound that points toward Del Carmen’s wider vision: a merging of languages, genres, and histories into something that is entirely her own.