Smooth, smooth sounds of summer? Opening with the lines ‘I was an angry young man’ this album attempts to wrongfoot listeners with its sentiments whilst delivering a shimmering, melodic, slowly building ballad tinged with melancholy. By […]
What is this – midweek already? How can that be? Feeling run-ragged? Same. We should just slope off and grab a flat white and find somewhere quiet and out of the way and just blow a […]
Simple black and White line drawings reflect the stripped-down music in the video for Justin Rutledge’s ‘Easy’. The song lilts along as female backing vocals join Rutledge’s voice. Strings soar as the monochrome chromatic images of […]
How to revisit your younger self and make timeless music for today. This album is a joy due to its simplicity, however, simplicity does not mean it lacks sophistication. It manages to capture the pure essence […]
Despite a literary background songwriter Justin Rutledge now believes simple songs work best. Justin Rutledge owes the UK a lot in that it was the UK success of his debut album ‘No Never Alone’ that really […]
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