Natalia Lafourcade is getting ready to release new muse-ic…

The 33-year old Mexican pop-rock singer and songwriter is set to release her latest album, Musas, on May 5.

Lafourcade  recorded the instrumental-driven record “on a whim,” while vacationing in Brazil.

“That always happens. I start working while on vacation,” she tells Billboard. “It wasn’t in my plans to release a new album, but I had this desire to record with Los Macorinos and just make music for myself. But now here we are, releasing a new album.”

Musas, an emotional and graceful homage to Latin American music and songwriters with original songs and covers of classics like Violeta Parra‘s “Qué he sacado con quererte,” follows the artist’s Grammy and Latin Grammy-winning LP Hasta La Raíz (2015) in collaboration with Los Macorinos (Juan Carlos Allende y Miguel Peña), an acoustic guitar duo who accompanied Mexican legend and icon Chavela Vargas in various musical projects.

“I wanted an album that represented real music, bohemians, instruments made out of wood,” says Lafourcade. “The music we made there is something we can’t explain, it could only be felt.”

And the album ended up impacting Lafourcade personally, as well as those who worked on it.

“I was able to re-connect with myself and connect to songs in a way I hadn’t been able to before. It changed my life. It changed the life of Los Macorinos and everyone else who was involved in the project,” declares Lafourcade. “The energy and force from this album is very peculiar, one I hadn’t been able to achieve with any other musician from my age or doing it by myself and that’s because of Los Macorinos.”