Taken from his forthcoming new album...There’s a looseness to *Tropics’* music, a sense of rhymic ease which provides the singer with enormous room to experiment.
Perhaps it’s all that time listening to Arthur Russell, who knows? Tropics will release his second album on February 16^th, with title cut ‘Rapture’ online now.
Driven by piano and shuffling percussion, Chris Ward’s delivery is both gorgeous and awkwardly English. Amidst bubbling synths, his sighing, looping vocals are able to build and build, subtly rising in intensity towards the finish.
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