Charlie Winston - Still Running on CD

Description

Following up the breakthrough of his 2009 album, "Hobo", a No.1 success in Europe and Canada, "Running Still" finds Charlie Winston and his richly talented band in collaboration with producer Tony Berg (Aimee Mann, Michael Penn) to reach new emotional and sonic colours. Opener 'Hello Alone' makes for an inviting call, a shared solitude, if you will, that's at the root of the art experience. But the next song, 'Speak to Me', makes it clear that no one should limit Winston in terms of expectations, the all-vocal beat-boxed tour de force showing one of his many facets, with more to come. The snappy 'Happiness' offers soulful yearning, 'She Went Quietly' is a searching piano ballad (inspired by a heart-wrenching tale of separation involving his great aunt and, to lesser though crucial extent, the movie Million Dollar Baby). 'Until You're Satisfied' is '80s-referencing pop-funk celebrating Winston's Prince fandom. 'Lift Me Gently' is a stand out track for Peter Gabriel - "An amazing song, and possibly the best Charlie has ever written….". 'Wild Ones' is charging blues-rock, 'Rockin' in the Suburbs' is all vibrant energy, and that's just part of the picture. "My sole objective on the album was to be able to engage people's feet first and slowly rise to the mind so by the time they get absorbed in the lyrics, they're fully engaged but realize there's something more going on." Charlie Winston Review 'Bouncy, beat-box fuelled, brooded, spacious... Winston's kind of pop is a moving and slanted thing, and quite delightful. It's utterly original too.' --Guitar & Bass 'Winston's music has a funk and folk base onto which some astonishingly bravura musical adventures into hiphop, rock, even classical, are originally fused...File under deserving of proper attention.' --David Buckley, Mojo * * * *