Skybound CD Album CD
Merchant: Townsend Music
Merchant's Category: music
Anyone that heard British singersongwriter Tom Baxterrsquos superb 2004 debut album Feather and Stone, will have marked him down as a consummate talent and inevitable chartbotherer. But while Baxterrsquos obvious skills garnered a heap of critical reviews, he somehow failed to penetrate the mainstream. The same fate seems unlikely to befall Skybound, Baxterrsquos sophomore effort and an album that more than makes good on his early promises. Combining his soulful, mesmerising voice with understated guitar and piano work and some deft songwriting, Skybound is more a lsquoconceptrsquo album than its predecessor, in that it loosely charts the journey from boy to man. As before Baxter fuses elements of jazz and blues with compelling results, adding rhythmic double bass and orchestral accompaniments that create a mellifluous and sophisticated aura. There are some affecting Spanish touches too, such as the Andalucian flourishes on the title track and the flamenco undertones of Tell Her Today. While the ballads hereBetter for examplendashcan tend towards the schmaltzy, Baxter balances these moments with darker material like the fabulously moody, tempochanging Icarus Wings. Itrsquos a solid second album that, just like the first, has bright future written all over it.
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