Nothing we experience is absolute. All our experiences occur on a gray scale, in a coming and going between two specific points that become intertwined over time. And that is what he has tried to capture. Charlotte Day Wilson on their second album, opening up in the synesthesia between green and blue. After an acclaimed debut, with which she became one of the favorites of Drake, John Mayer, James Blake, and even Patti Smith, she now returns with “Cyan Blue” by XL Recordings. He has thirteen cuts in which he continues to perfect his famous R&B with soft drums and an enveloping voice that turns the personal into absolutely universal.
The album works like a puzzle of experiences that respond to different moments in his life. Titled after a changing color, it shows us how every situation can be seen from many angles, but above all how they mutate through the prism of time. Leaving Jack Rochon in charge of production, his work has focused on transmitting the layers that accumulate in each of his experiences. He offers us the peace of having a broken heart in “I Don’t Love You”, a theme that seems to be filtered by a radio played on a car trip. But also the mischief and desire that we find in the seductive and luminous R&B of “Do You Still.”
Although it is his most personal work to date, in the album different voices are perceived that function as textures of secondary characters, as in his most gospel moment in “Kiss & Tell”. And we also find the brilliant collaboration with Snoh Alaegra in “Forever”. Without forgetting his particular cover of “Somewhere Over The Rainbow”, in which the change of a single word redefines the entire song.
“Cyan Blue” It is an emotional mirror of Charlotte Day Willson through time. Taking perspective on everything they feel, not only helps us to know their particular inner universe, but also confronts us with our own.
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