The successor to Christian Burns’s 2021 ‘Love Songs From Suburbia’ will be ‘Waking Up In A Northern Town’, and as both albums’ titles suggest, they’ll share a closely associated throughline. Further underscoring that are the five singles already drawn from ‘Northern Town’s wider body: ‘Darker Days’, ‘I Will Follow’ and, most recently, ‘Strangers’ among them. Now, with the LP locked for a 19 June 19, Christian and UV man Paul Thomas deliver a sixth statement.
Neat shorthand for the coming-together of Paul’s progressive studio lexicon and Christian’s vocals, ‘The Two Of Us’ finds them unified on one piece of music.
For his part, Paul delivers a progressive construction and arrangement, bringing his brand of chemistry to the track. He kits it out with slowly cascading synth lines that unfold over its
chugging rhythms, LFO undulation, hissing, and pressurised FX. Its mainline drives the track on in measured fashion, allowing space and restraint to do the heavy lifting, while maximising its
impact through less-is-more minimalism.
Every bit as critical to this is Burns himself, whose vocal haunts an end-to-end storm. His tones arrive, suspended somewhere between presence and absence, almost akin to an internal monologue
let slip. Each lyrical line feels inward-facing yet expansive, deepening the ethereal imprint the track leaves behind.
With the curtain all but ready to go up on the album, this release adds another pre-release marker.
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