Erick Oscar Rivera - Hold The Light
Erick Oscar Rivera’s "Hold The Light" explores love across eleven tracks, making space for devotion, frustration, separation and friendship. The title track establishes the record’s personal stakes: written for his wife, who lives with fibromyalgia, it pairs acoustic guitar, piano and choir with a message of encouragement. It gives the album a reason to exist beyond collecting songs about relationships.
The record moves between ballads, country, pop and Latin styles. "Still Ridin’ On" carries forward its concern with perseverance, while the more upbeat "Total Package" changes the pace. "It’s Over" introduces the difficult decision to leave a relationship, adding another perspective to an album whose opening is devoted to staying beside someone. Erick Oscar Rivera’s writing finds room for both choices.
The final stretch brings his Spanish-language songwriting into focus. "Congela el Tiempo" leads into the bachata of "Eres Mi Latido", before "Abraza a Tus Amigos Esta Noche" closes the album with a celebration of friendship. That ending broadens the record’s subject beyond romantic love. Hold The Light presents affection as something expressed through several kinds of relationships, each asking something different of us.
