A serene and expansive folks/alt-pop cohesion stirs throughout All the pieces’s Transferring, Nothing’s Altering, an enveloping new album from Welsh singer-songwriter Owen Weston. The transferring songcraft combines with relatable themes of rising up, particularly capturing the sensation of arriving into early maturity and at a crossroads between blissful youth and ample accountability.
A delicate rhythmic pulse, lush digital textures, and a vocal craving to awaken construct by means of the opening “Daydreaming,” an atmospheric minute-long magnificence that kickstarts the album compellingly. An orchestral present of strings and twangy guitars adorn the next “Little Dying Cassette,” which builds into a beautiful second half with radiant acoustic strums, twinkling keys, and tender vocal layers. Additionally impressing with the introspective chamber-folk intrigue of “Misplaced Time,” it’s shortly obvious on these first few tracks that All the pieces’s Transferring, Nothing’s Altering tends for emotively charming, structurally increasing standouts.
One other spotlight, “Fade Away” pairs palpable vulnerabilities — “perhaps it’s not meant for me,” — with optimism that “time’s are gonna change.” The warming title-touting chorus melds with hypnotic acoustic strums and calming backing atmosphere for an inviting affect; this central sequence is especially resonating, feeling just like the comedown of previous tumult fading away, and blue skies being forward. “Completely satisfied The place I’ve Landed” closes the album with satiating entrancement, spacious and caressing in its glistening guitars and hovering vocal infusions. Owen Weston completely succeeds with riveting songwriting and soundscapes all through All the pieces’s Transferring, Nothing’s Altering.
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“Fade Away” and different tracks featured this month might be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Rising Singles’ Spotify playlist.
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