| Loki? | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Arnaldo Baptista |
| Cover: | Loki (album).jpg |
| Released: | 1974 |
| Recorded: | 1974 in Estúdio Eldorado |
| Genre: | Rock, jazz fusion, art rock, rock and roll, bossa nova |
| Length: | 33:40 |
| Label: | Philips/PolyGram |
| Producer: | Roberto Menescal, Marco Mazzola |
| Next Title: | Singin' Alone |
| Next Year: | 1982 |
Loki? is the first solo album from Arnaldo Baptista, the keyboardist, bassist and singer of the Brazilian band Os Mutantes. It was released in 1974 after a supposed nervous breakdown and it is considered one of the best albums in the 1970s Brazilian music scene. The album expresses his angst towards the height of post-modern society, along with the suffocating aspect of modernity: pollution, superpopulation, loneliness, etc.
It was listed by Rolling Stone Brazil at #34 on the list of 100 Greatest Brazilian Albums of All Time.[1]
The album cover, signed by Aldo Luiz, features two overlapping pictures of Baptista against a star-spangled background. He is shirtless and holding a pellet gun and a bullet belt. The image was taken by the porch of his house in the Serra da Cantareira region. The back cover has a picture of an angel statue he bought in a cemetery.[2]