MIXED BAG
Nov 23, 2020
3 minutes
CHARLIE BARNES
Last Night’s Glitter [Superball]
espite multi-instrumentalist Charlie Barnes’ touring schedule with British popsters Bastille, he’s found the time to make two solo albums of songs redolent of Muse, Jeff Buckley and Oceansize at various junctures. On Glitter, he plays pared-down versions of his repertoire. The results are sufficiently different to make Last Night’s Glitter stand proudly on its own. is a finger- picked take on the highlight of 2018’s Oceanography, the gutsy riffage of from his 2015 debut More Stately Mansions is replaced by woodwind, brass and harmony-laced falsetto, and the
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