Letrux: Em noite de climão

Em noite de climão marked Letrux’s arrival in the music scene. It was a new phase in the career of Letícia Novaes, making her stand in the indie music scene after releasing three albums with the band Letuce. The expectation and enthusiasm around her first solo work led to the crowdfunding of the album, supported by fans who were curious about what was to come.

The album featured a sound full of electronic beats, synths and reverb, creating a dancing sound allied to sharp lyrics and acid melodies. Acclaimed by critics and its faithful audience alike, Em noite de climão was picked as the Album of the Year by the 2017 Multishow Award for Brazilian Music, and elected one of the best 10 Brazilian albums of the year by Rolling Stone magazine.

In these pages, journalist Roberta Martinelli unveils the backstage of the recording, the stories orbiting the creation of Climão, and the impact of the album that achieved a definitive place in the history of contemporary Brazilian music. According to Letrux, Em noite de climão is “where the blues dance and pleasure hurts.”

Excerpt
“In that release party in São Paulo, in addition to the show, the vibe was that something very different was being born there, and that the chorus ‘bota na tua cabeça que isso aqui vai render’ [‘get it into your head that this is going to work out’] wasn’t a mantra, but a prediction for the album.”

About the author
Roberta Martinelli is a journalist and musical researcher. Presenter and curator of Cultura Livre, that has been on the air since 2009, she also leads Prelúdio — a classical music competition —, both on TV Cultura. She presents and produces the daily show Som a Pino at Rádio Eldorado, and also leads the Clube do Livro Eldorado, focused on literature, for which she won the APCA in 2024. She's the musical curator of the Desi Lab museum in Brasília, and presents the “Sounds and Cities” segment at Jam the Planet, on a Japanese FM radio.

About Letrux
Letrux is the artistic alias of Letícia Novaes: writer, singer, composer, poet and actress, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1982. Before diving into music, Letícia studied performing arts at the Casa das Artes de Laranjeiras. In 2008, with Lucas Vasconcellos, she created the band Letuce, releasing three albums. She went solo in 2017 and, as Letrux, has released the following albums: Em noite de climão (2017); Aos prantos (2020), nominated for the Grammy Latino; and Como mulher girafa (2023), picked as one of the 50 best Brazilian albums of 2023 by APCA. As a writer, Letícia has published Zaralha: Abri minha pasta (2015) and Tudo que já nadei: Ressaca, quebra-mar e marolinhas (2021).

About the collection
The O Livro do Disco collection was released in 2014 by Cobogó in order to present readers with distinct musical reflections about albums that were, and still are, essential to our cultural and, of course, emotional education. With each title, the reader is invited to dive deep in the history of albums that broke barriers, opened paths and defied convention. O Livro do Disco is for music fans, but also for those who desire a deeper, yet accessible, contact with the context and central figures of works that made music history. In times of fragmented listening and music access through streaming platforms, (re)encountering these albums in their totality is a way of listening to what they have to say about our times.

Specifications
Title Letrux: Em noite de climão
Author Roberta Martinelli
Collection O Livro do Disco
Language Portuguese
Page count 124
Publisher Cobogó
ISBN 978-655691175-5
Cover Radiográficos
Format Softcover
Size 13x19 cm
Year 2025
Price R$ 68.00