Play 90 second soundbite of 'Come And Go' @ 'CD quality'
With ten tracks to go at on this album it gives me more of a chance of understanding the new and exciting talent that is Chris Townsend; ten tracks that show variation, maturity and commercialism - ten tracks that suggest that Chris Townsend is gonna make quite an impact as a pretty unique troubadourial singer/songwriter with masses of potential and an awesome ability to make the listener stop and listen. Townsend is a bit like a jagged James Blunt with Crowded House leanings - all clean lines and good looks but packing a hefty punch lyrically and with a great understanding of composition, harmony and dynamics. Townsend creates great drama and sentimentality within his songs, he sits the two side by side and makes it work through superbly confident vocalisation and well thought out, individualistic instrumentation.
As I listen, Chris Townsend is slowly but surely drawing me in - on first hearing this album was pretty damn impressive, several plays later and I'm still discovering things I'd not heard before, subtleties, nuances, a new instrument here and there - 'Copenhagen' is a real worker!! Very impressive and very very tasty!! My one and only worry is that 'Copenhagen' is so good that it's gonna be a hard act to follow when it comes to the, always very difficult, second album.
'Copenhagen' by Chris Townsend is a quality work from start to finish and should certainly make some of Townsend's contemporaries pause for thought - quite right too, this guy's a real contender and 'Copenhagen' is one helluva fine album!!
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