UK-based singer-songwriter Chris Lewington has returned to the spotlight with the release of his new album, Shadow Play.
Having cut his teeth in the underground music scene during the 1980s with bands like The Silence and Bicycle Thieves, Lewington’s career has been steeped in a reverence for the songwriting traditions of the sixties and seventies. His collaborations with notable figures like Tony Visconti and a handful of songwriting accolades underline a career built on quiet resilience and artistic integrity.
The ten-track new project Shadow Play moves through moments of buoyant beach-indie, mid paced alternative-rock and others of piano led, reflective emotion to pasture both sixties nostalgia and modern-day storytelling. From the moments of toe-tapping upbeat, summery vibrancy and others of which bring a more inward, introspective tone, the album showcases Lewington’s ability to weave sonic landscapes with a literary depth.
He explains: “I always liked the way Love’s “Forever Changes” was full of beautiful tunes but alongside the lyrics were quite weird and dark. I set out with “Shadow Play” to write something that would be an immediate, straight, classic pop song, but on reflection, I got lots of strange twists, songs about loss, mourning and whimsy.”
Listen to the new album below:
