“I was just trying to articulate a certain aspect of being in a serious long term situation,” he says. It’s a song Lightburn says is inspired from his own life but hopes listeners can also appreciate. We’re trying to get a performance here.’ Working like that I think people embrace it almost immediately.”Īnother fine track is “Centre Of My Universe” oozing ‘60s era R&B. “It’s an amazing experience when you bring in musicians and you tell them, ‘Hey just so you know we’re not doing a million takes and cut it together. There were days the computer wasn’t even fucking turned on which is amazing. “I’m not a big fan of edits and all those digital technologies and what’s embraced with it. It’s a very old-school approach where we recorded to 24 tracks on tape, two-inch tape. “I feel that Howard and I share a very similar approach and aesthetic to a degree, maybe not taste but in terms of approach to making records,” he says. It’s a feeling both he and producer Howard Bilerman. Here Lightburn delivers strong soul-tinged material like “Anew,” the soothing, dreamy title track and the sweet, slow doo-wop feel of “I Give Up” effortlessly.

The 10-track album is a solid collection of material off the path of The Dears lush, grandiose offerings. It’s always been my creative process and I never realized it until it happened.” Sometimes you think you know what you’re supposed to do until something happens that tells you what you’re supposed to do. “In the weirdest way the gods were steering the project this way and I just abided. So I recorded myself singing the song and picking the acoustic guitar. “I was like, ‘Wow I could easily go in this direction, you know?’ So I just kept pursuing it. “I picked up the guitar I started singing these words that came to me,” he says. 28 (early and late show), says the closing track “When They See Me” was the catalyst for the rest of the album. Lightburn, who plays two shows at Toronto’s The Burdock on Feb. It’s an album he says evolved by whittling away the original arrangements he envisioned down to their sparser, soulful and soothing end. But the musician is also forging new ground with his sophomore solo album entitled Hear Me Out. Murray Lightburn is best known as the lead singer of Montreal rock outfit The Dears.

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