Charlotte Day Wilson – ALPHA (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 33:12 minutes | 369 MB | Genre: R&B, Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Stone Woman Music
Light has always been a precious resource in Charlotte Day Wilson’s music. The Toronto singer-songwriter and producer’s vast voice is like a canyon that the sun can’t access; the percolating soul and quiet storm that surround it flicker like candlelight. “I went to a funeral today just so I could feel something,” she sang on “Funeral,” from her 2018 EP Stone Woman. It’s a particularly bitter line in a catalog that has often traced life’s hard edges.
Her debut album, Alpha, is an escape from the twilight. Darkness once consumed Day Wilson, seeping down into the bottom of her lungs. Now, she’s preoccupied with luster and scope. Her voice-and what a voice, deep and passionate, cast in the mold of Anita Baker-feels less crepuscular, less intimate, and more capable of levitating cars and uprooting whole forests.
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