To the Root) is the fifth studio album by Mexican recording artist Natalia Lafourcade, released on March 17, 2015, through Sony Music Mexico.

The record was produced by Lafourcade, with the assistance of Argentinian musician Cachorro López and Mexican artist Leonel García.

To promote the album, four singles were released, and Lafourcade launched the 2015 Hasta la Raíz Tour to several Latin American countries, the United States, and Europe.

[1] In 2010 Natalia Lafourcade joined Mexican orchestra conductor Alondra de la Parra on the musical project Travieso Carmesí, an album created as part of the Bicentennial of Mexico celebration.

[4] Two years later, Lafourcade traveled to Veracruz (Mexico), Colombia, and Cuba in a search for musical inspiration and a balance between heart, mind and body.

[5] She was inspired by the works of Latin American songwriters such as Simón Díaz, Violeta Parra, Mercedes Sosa, Chavela Vargas, and Caetano Veloso.

[12] García played a huapango riff, and Lafourcade started singing along while producer Cachorro López recorded everything, and the final result is from that session.

The former, arranged to emulate emotional outbursts, was the most difficult to finish, and the singer had a hard time trying to find the right place for it on the album.

[13][14] "Vámonos Negrito" is a tribute to her Latin American roots that she started writing after a show in Colombia and finished in Cuba; in this song, one of her favorites, she tried to create a musical landscape with instruments, textures, and harmonies.

[16][17] "Ya No Te Puedo Querer" is, according to Lafourcade, an obscure folk-pop song about finding that one cannot be in a relationship anymore; it was written during a concert tour in Monterrey.

[20] According to Beverly Bryan of The Village Voice, the song resembles Belle and Sebastian's The Life Pursuit "in its treatment of Sixties-era pop inspirations".

[5] Mariano Prunes of AllMusic compared the track to the work of Spanish singer Jeanette on the song "Porque te vas".

[17] Lafourcade decided upon the album's title between the songs "Hasta la Raíz" and "Palomas Blancas"; the latter was written in Las Vegas, during her trip to the Grammy Awards.

[1][23] "Estoy Lista" is a ballad about being ready to be well, and Lafourcade worked on the track in her spare time, taking a year to finish it.

[25] In live performances, the singer dedicates the track to Mexico, to send hope through her music and help people deal with situations such as the Iguala mass kidnapping.

Beverly Bryan of The Village Voice stated that the album "casts a spell with deep feeling, and melodies and lyrics that linger in the mind.

"[27] AllMusic's Mariano Prunes gave the album 4.5 out of 5 stars ranking, and on his review stated that "these are extremely well-written songs in the spirit of the great Latin America romantic tradition of which Lara was a founding father, but infused with a contemporary perspective".

[17] Luis Romero of the website Coffee and Saturday said that the album is one of the best pop releases of the year, praising Lafourcade's evolution as a musician, but was critical of Lafourcade for not having extended "her comfort zone", since it is too early in her career to become settled in one type of music, "and the proof is that the best album tracks are those where she is helped by Leonel García, Torreblanca and María Daniela".

[29] Lissette Corsa, of MTV Iggy, stated that "despite moments of darkness and heartfelt sadness, Hasta la Raiz bristles with a sense of adventure and optimism", and noted the influence of Chilean songwriter Violeta Parra in the track "Vámonos Negrito", as part of Lafourcade's "eclectic artistry".

[30] About the nominations, Lafourcade said to the newspaper Al Día, "I am very grateful to the people because this album has allowed me to reach them in a closer way, create a complicity ...

[30][39][40] The music video was directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios, at the Estudios Churubusco in Mexico City, gathering 300 fans who responded to an ad published in social networks.

[43] The music video was released on March 23, 2015, and was directed by Martín Bautista, and features actors Diana Lein, Gustavo Sánchez Parra and Tenoch Huerta.

"[57][59] To further promote the album, Lafourcade became the first Mexican female singer-songwriter to record an acoustic session for the music streaming service Spotify.

Titled Spotify Sessions, the live EP includes six tracks from Hasta la Raíz ("Para Qué Sufrir", the title track, "Nunca Es Suficiente", "Ya No Te Puedo Querer", "Palomas Blancas", and "No Más Llorar") and a cover version of Rafael Hernández's "Silencio".