Mvd Luv


Mvd Luv is the seventh studio album by singer-songwriter and guitarist Juan Wauters. It was released on June 27, 2025, via Captured Tracks in LP, CD and digital formats.

Background

The album was recorded in Montevideo, Uruguay, the birthplace of Wauters, and co-produced by Leandro Aquistapacie. It also features instrumental contributions from Mateo Ottonello and Cecilia "Checha" Rodrígues.
Mvd Luvs lead single, "If It's Not Luv", was released on April 10, 2025.

Reception

Victoria Segal of Mojo assigned the album a rating of four stars, noting it as "a wistful prodding at Wauters' roots in the place he left for New York when he was 18."
Describing Wauters as being "genuinely inspired" in incorporating the culture of Montevideo into his music, AllMusic remarked, it "gives MVD LUV its inherent sweetness and makes it more than just another album of happy-go-lucky folk-pop numbers."
Under the Radar gave it a rating of six out of ten, describing it as feeling "like a pop-folk documentary" and "exciting, but a bit rushed." Financial Times rated the project four stars and described it as "an album that is charming, light and short."

Personnel

Credits for Mvd Luv adapted from Bandcamp.
  • Juan Wauters – all instruments, arrangement, production, recording, mixing, mastering, songwriting
  • Abril Pereira Beasley – backing vocals
  • Camilo Ottonello – bombo
  • Cecilia Rodríguez – sax, flute
  • Juan Branaa – drum recording
  • Julia Somma – bombo legüero
  • Leandro Aquistapacie – all instruments, arrangement, production, recording
  • Manuel Silva Abelino – tambor repique
  • Mateo Alvarez – tambor piano
  • Mateo Ottonello – hand percussions, snare, tambores, tambor chico, tambor piano, tambor repique, redoblante, drums
  • Nicolás Demczylo – mixing, mastering
  • Renzo Quartino – platos
  • Santiago Silva – tambor repique