Dreammaker is a riveting new album from Los Angeles-based artist Charles Moret, emitting a moody and atmospheric array of rock and pop. Moret’s extensive experience in music composition and piano performance complement sincere lyrical storytelling, enhancing a compelling production full of consuming structural twists and turns. The eight-song album is also accompanied by two visual pieces.
The album’s opening title track is a showcase in tonal versatility, spanning cohesively from effervescent swells of multi-vocal energy into lyrical observations of mere observation, exuding a sparser soulful beautiful. “Blended Nights” follows with a twinkling subduedness to start, though arises eventually into an emotive alt-rock vigor — compelling melodically throughout, and comprising the latter of an opening one-two punch that emphasizes Moret’s knack for melodic immediacy and evolving tonal charm.
The eight tracks maintain a consistent quality throughout, with “Things You Wish” also standing out — emitting a lush, vulnerable grip as prancing piano and introspective vocals — emitting being “stuck in the cycle,” — assemble an illuminated entrancement. “Time and Time Again” concludes the album with further enchantment, building amidst twinkling keys and calming percussive pit-pattering. Dreammaker is a success full of intrigue and memorable songwriting.
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“Things You Wish” and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.
We discovered this release via MusoSoup, as part of the artist’s promotional campaign.
