CURTIS HARDING - IF WORDS WERE FLOWERS [CD]

ANTI RECORDS

£10.69

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: 276912
Barcode: 8714092769128
Release Date: 05 Nov 2021
Genre: Soul

Simply calling Curtis Harding a soul man feels reductive. Harding's voice conveys pain, pleasure, longing, tenderness, sadness and strength—a full gamut of emotions. Today his voice takes on an optimistic lilt with his new album, If Words Were Flowers.

If Words Were Flowers is Harding's first new music since 2018, a follow up to his critically acclaimed 'Face Your Fears" album. It features songs like " Hopeful" , where Harding croons with devotion over a classic soul groove, textured with infectious horn playing, background singers and modern psychedelic flourishes. Harding fuels his psychedelic sound with the essence of Soul but isn't bound by it.

Instead, his songs convey an eclectic blend of genres leaping from the many musical lives he has lived from following his evangelical Gospel-singing mother on tour around the country as a child to rapping in Atlanta, forming a garage band with The Black Lips' Cole Alexander to singing back-up for Cee Lo Green. Through these experiences he fully embraces life's darkest intricacies and conjures dynamic, addictive melodies.

"Old-school polemical soul and gospel" - Sunday Times
"A surging piece of soul music touched by vintage qualities" - Clash
"This is pure soul magic" - BBC Radio 1
"A luminous soul manifesto" - FIP Radio
"A great tsunami mixing gospel, soul, r & b. Even with a "Hendrix" guitar. Sumptuous." - Libération France

Tracks:
1. If Words Were Flowers
2. Hopeful
3. Can't Hide It
4. With You
5. Explore
6. Where's The Love
7. The One
8. So Low
9. Forever More
10. It's A Wonder
11. I Won't Let You Down