THE LATE DAVID TURPIN
Romances
[Self-Release]
It speaks to an absolute unfettered ambition, set off by a very brief death from hypothermia, that singer-songwriter David Turpin’s fourth album can even attempt to tackle the layers and substances of love in its entirety.
The stroke of genius here is Turpin’s turn as a director, ‘casting’ ten different singers, including Villagers’ Conor O’Brien, across the album’s tracks, to lay out different scenes and examples of the sensitivities of love.
The effect is a sonically and aesthetically complete work, and an affecting one at that, at its most intimate.
Mike McGrath-Bryan
