Steady Away by Chris Brain
Steady Away, the highly anticipated second album by Chris Brain, moves inward and takes on a more self-reflective quality, whilst retaining glimmers of soaring figures and pastoral imagery.
Brain’s distinctive warm vocal and finger picked guitar style are sustained alongside expansive strings and delicate piano arrangements, taking shape through evolving and introspective impressions on tenderness, loss, pain and awe in nature.
Glancing off The Nave’s eaved ceilings with natural reverb, Steady Away’s 11 tracks, recorded by Tom Orrell, capture the intimacy of Chris’ songwriting.
Steady Away further embeds Chris Brain within the contemporary folk scene, whilst gesturing towards the folk tradition. His commitment to folk is only deepened by the two folk clubs and folk festival in Leeds that Chris founded and runs, attracting a wide range of audiences and musicians alike.
Chris Brain emerged out of Leeds’ vibrant folk scene in 2022 with his debut, critically acclaimed and widely distributed album, Bound to Rise, reaching #22 in the UK Folk Charts.
Tracklist
| 1. | Golden Days | 2:50 |
| 2. | Please | 3:39 |
| 3. | Steady Away | 4:01 |
| 4. | Curse | 4:35 |
| 5. | Silence | 2:58 |
| 6. | Rolling Wave | 3:33 |
| 7. | Wish | 3:14 |
| 8. | Tawny | 2:54 |
| 9. | Instrumental | 2:26 |
| 10. | Weeping Willow | 2:58 |
| 11. | Now Westlin Winds | 4:20 |
Credits
Piano - Simeon Walker
Violin - Mary-Jane Walker
Double - Bass - Alice Phelps
Engineer - Tom Orrell
Mastering Engineer - Autumn Giant
Design - Caio Wheelhouse
Photography - Hannah Burgess / Chris Brain
License
All rights reserved.Tags
Chris Brain is a singer-songwriter from Yorkshire England.
Drawing inspiration from the outdoors and song writers such as John Martyn, Nick Drake, Bert Jansch and Joni Mitchell Chris explores distinctive fingerpicking patterns and alternate tunings in his sound.