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Up north, ‘grey’ isn’t seen as bleak, but as honest and real: a backdrop that\nhas shaped an unpretentious outlook on all things ‘life’. It engenders a sense of working through\nadversity, and through that, producing something vital, expressive and, well, frankly … elevated.\nNow, through his third album dispatch, ‘Waking Up In A Northern Town’, singer, songwriter and\nBBMAK vocalist, Christian Burns makes his own mark in this grand practice.\nIt could be argued that Burns actually began this process with the release of his last artist album in\n2021. ‘Love\nSongs From Suburbia’s title and singles already played with the theme to a degree. There’s a distinct\ndichotomy between the two albums’ relationship though, as Christian goes onto explain ...\n“Love Songs From Suburbia’ was written during one of the lowest points of my life.. ‘Waking Up In A\nNorthern Town’ however was actually created during one of the best. It came at a time when I’d moved\nto the States and met and married my now-wife. This album, well … there’s a lot of hope on here.\n‘Love Songs’ was more like a plea for it. This is the one where it actually happens.\nAs Christian points out though, “no one wants to hear an LP made up of twelve happy-clappy songs!\nThat’s not real life.” So, in title and lyric, time and again over its vanguard singles, he’s cannily\nsubverted or swerved the issue. The album embarks with ‘Darker Days’, and case-in-point, against its\ntitle type, optimism is never far from its surface. Likewise, his title-with-a-twist recent single, ‘Strangers’\ncounterbalances the more overtly elevating\nlikes of ‘Fall To You’ or the trust-the-moment message of ‘I Will Follow’. I’d say ‘Waking Up In A\nNorthern Town’ is definitely a continuation of ‘Love Song’s’ direction... If it were a movie,\nhe jokes. “you could probably get away with calling it ‘Suburbia 2’. I look at them more as an\ninterrelated body of work though, especially when it comes to the telling of some of the ebbs and flows\nof my life. Many of the experiences happened to me while I was ‘waking up’ in a ‘northern town’.\nThough I’m now based in the States, the north’s importance to me will never fade. Feeding into that\nare the visuals that accompany the album. From ‘the backbone of the north’ – the M62 carriageways\nwhich carve their way across its cover, ‘Northern Town’s imagery chimes one-to-one with its sonics.\nChristian says, the music videos for the singles were all shot in and around (my hometown of) Wigan,\nand the artwork is all pictures I took there. Walking down old pathways I used to take when I was a kid,\npast my\nold school; in the woods where I used to walk the dog, when I was going through bad times. These are\nall places I revisited for ‘Northern Town’, which in turn was cycled back into the music evolving around\nit.\nAcross its singles sway, Christian worked with a number of luminary co-producers - Cosmic Gate,\nPretty Pink, Paul Thomas and Little Foot among them. There was one however who left an impression\nmore broadly across its album canvas. Says Christian, “I initially contacted Banaati (of Monstercat\nfame) to work on the track that became ‘Embers’. His own flavour and sound translated brilliantly, and\nI loved the amount of space that he brought to it.”\nIn him, Christian had discovered a stylistic likemind and Benjamin’s backings prove to be a\nmasterclass in transcendent space, knowing as much when to elementally delay or subtract, as to\nadd. That develops an overarching atmosphere for ‘Waking Up In A Northern Town’, that appears to\nwrap itself around the listener, and one you’ll ever more find yourself leaning into.\nChristian’s third album brings the north at its heights to the world at large.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch4>Tracklist\u003C\u002Fh4>\u003Col>\u003Cli>Darker Days\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>Let Me Love You\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>Brave\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>Embers\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>Strangers\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>Fall To You\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>The Two of Us\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>Undiscovered\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>I Will Follow\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>Diamond Dreams\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>Like a King\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>Won T You Hurry\u003C\u002Fli>\u003C\u002Fol>\u003Cp>\u003Csmall>Label: Black Hole | Origin: Holland\u003C\u002Fsmall>\u003C\u002Fp>","Waking Up In A Northern Town by Christian Burns. 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