Charlie Hewlett - Moving On, Moving Out, 
Changing Seasons EP
Release Date: Out Now
'Moving On, Moving Out, Changing Seasons' is the emotive, pure and honest new EP from Charlie Hewlett and, if it were a book, it would be unput-downable. The singer-songwriter introduces the six track collection with 'New Life' and you can hear the loneliness of someone settling in to a new place in life as the simple acoustic strum builds and swells with drums, bass, electric guitar and sprinkling of piano notes all there to welcome Hewlett's gentle, unsteady vocal. 'Ambivalent Love' starts like an early Ed Sheeran track before veering off on Nizlopi lines as the rapid mid-Atlantic vocal delivery, bubbling bass and picked acoustic notes sweep you in the energy.
On 'Bottle Abuse' there is a sense of isolation and abandonment that can only be felt in someone at the end of their journey with a relationship but the rumbling drums and brooding hope makes for intense listening. I could listen to Hewlett's story telling and warm vocal all day long and 'Island to the South' is the perfect example of this brilliance as the songwriter invites you in to his world on an adventure to uncharted new lands. Penultimate track 'Runaway' shimmers and sways with a calm, elemental energy akin to Cosmo Sheldrake composing new music by the side of a gently rolling Spring stream. The EP finishes, all too soon, on 'In My Bones' which has a Passenger vibe to it but you can't avoid the fact that this is a Charlie Hewlett and if you don't identify with the line "all my life I have wanted freedom" then consider yourself a very, very lucky person. Everyone else, well you just got a little luckier because now you have Charlie Hewlett in your life.
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