Lido Pimienta Announces New Album Caribenya: Hear “Tóxica”

11:42 AM EDT on May 19, 2026

The culture-melding Colombian Canadian musician Lido Pimienta returned from a half-decade break between albums with last year's classical excursion La Belleza. Having conquered that stuffy realm, she's loosening up and having fun on new album Caribenya, due out in July. The title is a portmanteau combining Caribe, referring to the indigenous Caribbean population, and Enya, referring to the Irish new age singer. Here's how Pimienta explains the new project:

Someone told me that making a classical album was gonna be impossible for me and I did it, an “impossible-only-Europeans-could-ever-do-this album”; Caribenya is the counterpart where I got to be less cerebral and have more fun. With my friends, I'm more collaborative, because I usually work alone; it has a sense of joy and collaboration that is very Caribbean. It’s like "come over and hang. You don’t need to set up an appointment, you can just knock on the door."

Our first taste of that approach in practice is lead single "Tóxica," a cumbia track addressing a bad friend. In director JC Molina's video, Pimienta is in the woods, surrounded by characters like her real-life children and (real-life?) men made of grass. (Grassquatch?) Watch below.