Album Review: Christopher Owens - A New Testament

There’s an overarching hopefulness to former Girls member Christopher Owens’ work.

Whether lamenting heartbreak or wishful thinking, everything in the lilting pitchiness of his voice and heart-on-sleeve lyricism has the air of a man throwing all his cards onto the table. A New Testament sees this optimism take shape in gospel-tinged Nothing More Than Everything To Me and the twanging country guitars on Key To My Heart. Stand-out song Never Wanna See That Look Again is rhythmically sharp, smoothed out with his doleful voice. A New Testament is sweet, almost saccharine, but Owens is endlessly endearing.