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The successor to Christian Burns’s 2021 opus ‘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 June 19 release, Christian and UV man Paul Thomas deliver it an astonishing sixth statement.
Neat shorthand for the alchemic coming-together of Paul’s progressive studio lexicon and Christian’s inimitable and instantly discernible vocals, ‘The Two Of Us’ finds them unified on one outstanding piece of music.
For his part, Paul delivers a masterclass in progressive construction and arrangement, bringing ‘The Two Of Us’ his brand of understated chemistry. He kits it out with slowly cascading synth-lines, which unfolds over its chugging rhythms, LFO undulace and hissing, 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.
Naturally, every bit as critical to this brilliant equilibrium is Burns himself, who’s vocal haunts up an end-to-end storm on it. His tones arrive with a spectral lightness, suspended somewhere between presence and absence, almost akin to an internal monologue let slip. Each lyrical line feels inward-facing yet impressively expansive, deepening the ethereal imprint ‘The Two Of Us’ leaves behind.
With the curtain all-but ready to go up on ‘Waking Up In A Northern Town’, ‘The Two Of Us’ provides it another brilliant pre-release marker. You can find it where all good music is streamed [blackhole.lnk.to/TwoofUs].
‘The Two Of Us’ by Christian Burns + Paul Thomas Tracklist:
- ‘The Two Of Us’ (Original Mix)
- ‘The Two Of Us’ (Extended Mix)
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