april the cruelest has been played on NTS in shows including Kraeji w/ Yaeji, featured first on 6 January 2023. Songs played include BRUTALISM.

april the cruelest is the moniker of Fernando “Acero” Rodríguez García, composer, music critic and musicologist from Barcelona. As a self-taught musician, he started his career path in local progressive rock, heavy metal, alt and pop punk acts. He later departed from them as he started his academic education as a musicology researcher at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Along this path, his interest for experimental tendencies grew, which led him to try different composition approaches as he developed his work as…