Curtis Harding – Face Your Fear (ANTI-) Ltd Clear Vinyl

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“Soul of a truly visceral variety… combines rock’n’roll, space-age effects and the impassioned vocal style of Curtis Mayfield and Otis Redding for an album brimming with a cavalier wit and attitude.” – 4* THE TIMES

“It is this level of vulnerability and self-examination that sets this album apart from both Harding’s previous work and also his contemporaries.” – 8/10 CLASH

“Richly soulful, heartsore second LP.” – 4/5 MOJO

“A joy throughout.” – 4/5 Q

“On Face Your Fear, the Atlanta soul man has worked out where to go. Working with Danger Mouse and Sam Cohen has polished his sound, and the quality of songwriting matches the production.” – 7/10 UNCUT

“Thoughtful vintage soul.” – 3/5 THE OBSERVER

“Soul-meets-garage pop perfection.” – NME

“The new retro-soul man on the block.” – THE EVENING STANDARD

“Harding’s Otis-influenced singing is difficult to resist.” – THE GUARDIAN

Curtis Harding could best be described as a student of the gritty, sweat-dripping, hip-swinging blues that wafted through the air of the American sixties. The offspring of a mother who sang gospel, and a retired veteran, he traveled all over the country as a child, singing alongside his parents, learning that music was in fact the great communicator, and that the key was not just in how pretty the notes were, but how if you were honest in what you were singing, you could stir a person on the inside. This is what Otis Redding knew. What Sam Cooke, and Bo Diddley, and B. B. King knew. That somehow there was a way to take your experiences, your pain and joy, and give them melody, cause them to live and breathe and massage the hearts and minds of all those who hear.

That is what Curtis Harding does on his new album ,Face Your Fear. He figures out how to tap into the old soul man of the past without mimicking or bastardizing it, but instead evoking the spirit of the true Soul music of yesterday, meshed with the realities of now. With a little production help from his friends Sam Cohen and Danger Mouse.

FORMAT: Limited edition of 500 clear vinyl pressing

Tracklist:

Side 1
1. Wednesday Morning Atonement
2. Face Your Fear
3. On And On
4. Go As You Are
5. Till The End

Side 2
1. Need Your Love
2. Dream Girl
3. Welcome To My World
4. Ghost Of You
5. Need My Baby
6. As I Am

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