By Keith Walsh
In a beautiful piece of baroque pop, British singer/songwriter Nick Hudson expresses the valuable sentiment of an apology. From the longing in Hudson’s powerful voice, to the lovely piano and string work, and the intricate lyrics, “For My Silence” hits all the right notes.
The tune is the first single from Hudson’s new album, Kanda Teenage Honey which was recorded mostly in an old movie studio in post-Soviet Georgia, in the shadow of the ongoing war. And while that studio was surely once the site of propaganda of the most pernicious sort, the video that Hudson presents to accompany the tune is dripping with sweetness.
In the maturest of ways, Hudson expresses a loss of innocence and simultaneous desire to mend broken bridges through the power of his lyrics:
It was never my desire to be a battleground/A fraught and fought for lost-and-found/A Sunday beach-clean cinema screen/Projected on to and barely seen/By wide open eyes.
From “For My Silence” by Nick Hudson
Kanda Teenage Honey is a 16-track set released on March 15, mixed by Toby Driver and mastered to analog tape by Paul Pascoe. Hudson is a British-born artist living and working in Tbilisi, Georgia. Stay tuned for an album review coming soon on Popular Culture Beat.
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