Hope Is A Drug

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It’s fascinating how the human psychehas the endless capacity for optimism as a mechanism for overcoming adversity. He is the recipient of two BRIT Awards, has performed to sold out arenas and headlined festivals across the UK. Hailing from Suffolk, Charlie Simpson began his musical career in 2001, gaining commercial and critical success with Busted and Fightstar before going solo.

Differing from his previous artistry of anything acoustic, he wanted to "make a more intimate sounding record" and "explore the different ranges of my voice, you know, get to do a bit more than falsetto stuff". I have found the words to be more direct than on his other albums, easier to connect with and find a message in that means something to yourself, as well as to Charlie. Hot on the heels of a sold out show at London’s O2 Kentish Town Forum, Charlie is delighted to announce a brand new solo album ‘Hope Is A Drug’. Featuring the singles ‘I See You’, ‘Blameless’, ‘One Of Us’ and ‘All the Best’, the record serves as the follow up to 2015’s ‘Little Hands’ and arrives a mere few months after the runaway success of Simpson’s sold out show at London’s O2 Kentish Town Forum last November, where he debuted some of the albums material, live for the first time. The way he uses lyrics and his own production techniques, harmonising with his own voice always draws me into his music.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

A majority of the tracks were written on the piano, and he purposefully avoided the guitar in favour of a different instrument. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.Don't do what I did and drink two glasses of red wine before listening to the album, because it will have you in tears. Two years later we made the move to our present address, 35 The Headrow, where we have remained ever since. The majority of the album was self-produced at Charlie's own recording studio, built from scratch during the global lockdown. The majority of the album was self-produced at Charlie’s own recording studio, built from scratch during the global lockdown. K. and Ireland next month playing a string of live shows up and down the country, in cities including Leeds, Norwich, Birmingham, Brighton and London, before wrapping up in Dublin at The Green Room on Sunday, May 29th.