Construção (1971)

The door into Rio songwriting under the dictatorship. Chico Buarque's 1971 album hides political anger in precise wordplay. The title track tells a construction worker's last day in lines that all end on stressed-antepenultimate words, then reshuffles those words as the orchestra builds to a frantic climax. Deus Lhe Pague follows with the same bitterness. Choose it if lyrics matter to you as much as the music.