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Album Review: Christopher Owens - A New Testament

Sevana Ohandjanian
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A New Testament is sweet, almost saccharine, but Owens is endlessly endearing.

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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.