For a year now, Zé Ibarra has focused on his second solo album, 'Afim', released in June 2025 Reproduction / Facebook Zé Ibarra ? ANALYSIS ? There is a law in force in the music industry, especially in multinational record companies, which determines that artists must always be presenting new content – ??whether singles, EPs or live recordings of shows – with increasingly shorter intervals between one release and another. The objective is to always feed the algorithm around that artist. This logic ignores that irrelevant and/or redundant phonographic releases end up diluting the strength of this artist's work and discography. There are two artists from the Brazilian indie scene who defied this rule and, instead of inventing fashion, invested in albums in the long term. And they reap the rewards of this focused investment. These are Tim Bernardes and Zé Ibarra. Both are singers, songwriters and musicians who have been gaining strength in the pop universe, even expanding their respective audiences, without the need to invent new releases all the time. Tim Bernardes released his second solo album in June 2022, “Mil fales invisíveis”, and since then has presented only one single, “Praga / Prudência”, in April 2025, investing in the album's show on tour which is only now approaching its end, four years after the release of “Mil fales invisíveis”. And with the detail that the search for Tim's shows has been increasingly intense. In other words, there is an audience that does not feed on algorithms, that seeks artists with more consistent works. And another of these artists is Zé Ibarra, who has invested in his second solo album, “Afim”, released in June 2025. Since the album was released, the artist has performed increasingly popular shows in Brazil and also in Europe. Zé Ibarra even surrendered to audiovisual albums, having captured the show “Afim” a month ago in a performance held on June 11 at Teatro Carlos Gomes, in Rio de Janeiro (RJ), the artist's hometown from Rio. The point is that Zé never took the focus off the album, even though he released a live single in March, “Afeto”, with a musical approach by Mayra Andrade. Both Zé Ibarra and Tim Bernardes seem to understand that the album cycle is long and requires exclusive dedication for the work to bear fruit. The result is that both consolidated their respective albums as landmark titles in Brazilian discography of the 21st century. “A thousand invisible things” and “Afim” are albums that did not become old or forgotten two or three months after their respective releases, as usually happens, as there are many people who still refuse to be shaped by the algorithm. Tim Bernardes has been dedicating the last four years to promoting his second solo album, 'A Thousand Invisible Things', released in 2022 Marco Lafer & Isabela Vdd / Disclosure