SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: CONCHÚR WHITE – SWIRLING VIOLETS

CONCHÚR WHITE
SWIRLING VIOLETS
BELLA UNION

There’s always some sort of giveaway with artists, as far as their experience and background. With Northern Irish singer songwriter Conchúr White, it is his lyrics on his latest and second album Swirling Violets.

You see, White is a music graduate who has worked alongside young people with mental health issues. Here, he sings about teenage infatuation (“501s”), mortality (“The Holy Death”), and addiction (“Rivers”) in somewhat surrealistic tones, giving his words another dimension.

On the other hand, his music is caring, gentle, and tender with delicate and detailed arrangements that give his lyrics the force that they need. It is quite a complex yet simple combination that really works, giving true sense to the singer songwriter genre that often loses sense in the hands and the voices of some other artists.

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