A serene and expansive folk/alt-pop cohesion stirs across Everything’s Moving, Nothing’s Changing, an enveloping new album from Welsh singer-songwriter Owen Weston. The moving songcraft combines with relatable themes of growing up, especially capturing the feeling of arriving into early adulthood and at a crossroads between blissful youth and ample responsibility.
A gentle rhythmic pulse, lush electronic textures, and a vocal yearning to awaken build through the opening “Daydreaming,” an atmospheric minute-long beauty that kickstarts the album compellingly. An orchestral current of strings and twangy guitars adorn the subsequent “Little Death Cassette,” which builds into a gorgeous second half with radiant acoustic strums, twinkling keys, and tender vocal layers. Also impressing with the introspective chamber-folk intrigue of “Lost Time,” it’s quickly apparent on these first few tracks that Everything’s Moving, Nothing’s Changing has a tendency for emotively captivating, structurally expanding standouts.
Another highlight, “Fade Away” pairs palpable vulnerabilities — “maybe it’s not meant for me,” — with optimism that “time’s are gonna change.” The warming title-touting refrain melds with hypnotic acoustic strums and calming backing ambience for an inviting impact; this central sequence is particularly resonating, feeling like the comedown of past tumult fading away, and blue skies being ahead. “Happy Where I’ve Landed” closes the album with satiating entrancement, spacious and caressing in its glistening guitars and soaring vocal infusions. Owen Weston thoroughly succeeds with riveting songwriting and soundscapes throughout Everything’s Moving, Nothing’s Changing.
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“Fade Away” 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.
