It's Charlie Berger's third album already; three years after Reveal (and a year since his fantastic EP Reverse), the Canadian artist showed his new work called Distance and it's as noisy and delicate as you can imagine.
The album is obviously impacted by the social distance issues we had to globally deal with for some years now. Berger, being clearly a very nice guy, says: "I hope these songs might somehow help bring me a little closer to everyone who hears them, even if just for a few moments. I like that idea. It gives me some nice, warm feelies". And this is exactly what we get from his music: the vocals and the unassuming but very fitting music combined feel simply intimate and warm. This is the dream pop we needed for the incoming autumn moths.
But the lyrics are not always very uplifting. More like there's always a certain dose of sadness and melancholia, as if there's no way of coming back to what we had before the pandemics. As in A Ghost: "Heard your voice/ From a distance/ Was it the wind/ Or just my memory?" But, to be honest, is there really any true answer to how to live now?
Distance costs 4.5 EUR (6 CAD).
Check: A Ghost
Country: Canada
Genre: dark dream pop
Label: Lossleader Records
