Album Review: Newton Faulkner - Write It On Your Skin

Have you ever imagined your life with background music, just like in the movies? Experienced that glimmering moment of optimism after heartache when you decide to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and pop on those rose coloured glasses? Newton Faulkner's latest offering Write It On Your Skin is perfect background music for this scenario. With so much inspiration and positivity to be drawn from this album, it's almost a musical version of a motivational book.

The lyrics are powerful, cheerful, and clichéd at times but nevertheless worthy of a slot in you CD collection. Opening with Pulling Teeth, a little pop number with shameless love-song type lyrics, from the get go the album boasts a rhythm and spark which suits the spring season. The second track Soon continues the pop vibe with Brick By Brick, a little on the heavier side of Faulkner's subject matter but with the same optimistic spin flowing throughout the song. From this point onwards the next few tunes are a little less chirpy but nonetheless seeping with that raw emotion which can be felt in Faulkner's music. The title track Write It On Your Skin is a notable standout on the release, giving his folk sound a feel good flavour.

Tracks 11 to 16 prove Newton Faulkner can produce not only one heck of a great studio recorded album, but his acoustic performances hold just as much of that 'wow factor' that can be seen right throughout Write It On Your Skin. Not to mention Faulkner casually slips in acoustic versions of his previous hits Dream Catch Me and I Need Something - in case you forgot the pieces of brilliance which brought Newton Faulkner into the limelight.