Yorkshire-based folksinger/guitarist Chris Brain’s fourth coming album, Red Sun Rising, replaces the wide optimism of last year’s New Light with a sense of knowing, yet still manages to focus on the brightness of life and the idea of new beginnings and freshness with the rising of the sun.
As the record develops, the feeling of natural repetition through the guitar arrangements comes through, with additional instruments adding points of difference and flourishes of colour throughout. Take the lovely ‘Kinds of Kindness’: Chris is an accomplished fingerpicker with a solid technique reminiscent of stalwarts like Burt Jansch and Nick Drake, and here his piece is a tightly picked refrain that combines played notes with harmonics, giving the guitar sound a complex yet…

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