Newton Faulkner
Newton Faulkner introduces his 17 track album
"Interference (Of Light)".
Working from his recording studio in East London,
Newton ventured into a number of new and unexplored ideas, using them as the
building blocks for this album. Twisting these inside out, he pushed himself
further and further and further. “I’m not very precious any more,” he remarks.
“The music is a bit chunkier, it’s definitely way heavier and much less
acoustic than previously. I feel like the stuff I’ve written recently is
simpler, but it’s tasteful… it works as songs. I can feel it.”
“I want to boil things down to their strongest
form,” Newton says. “It’s about the songs. However good you are at playing, if
the voice isn’t up to scratch and the songs aren’t good enough, no one is going
to listen to them.”
“It’s grizzly, soulful, and a step further,” he
says of his new material. “Vocally, I’ve learned a huge amount over the years.
I was a guitarist and a writer who sang. That’s kind of where I came from. And
now I feel like my voice has caught up with the stuff I was doing on guitar.”
Set to be released in August and into pre-order at
the end of March , the new album ‘Interference (Of Light)’ is Newton Faulkner
at his most daring, and also his most familiar. He’s embraced shifts in the way
music is forged and released, but only to get closer to the figure fans truly
love. “I don’t think things get better or worse. They just change,” he remarks.
“I’ve kind of purposefully steered away from any of the cliques that have
appeared around me. I’ve just remained this weird, solitary figure. I love it!”
Newton will follow the release of ‘Interference (Of Light)’ with an extensive UK tour in Autumn 2021.