Curtis Harding - Face Your Fear (2017) [Official Digital Download]

Curtis Harding's new album „Face Your Fear“ is out October 27. New York Magazine already named the forthcoming album one of their most anticipated fall releases lauding Harding’s “scorching voice” while Clash UK hails recent new track “On and On” as “a blistering slice of dancefloor soul that recalls prime Curtis Mayfield and late 60s Motown.” The new album follows 2014’s Soul Power, on which Rolling Stone called Harding an “artist you need to know.”

Harding fuels his psychedelic sound with the essence of Soul but isn’t bound by it. Instead, the 12 songs on the new album convey an eclectic blend of genres leaping from the many musical lives he has lived from following his evangelical Gospel-singing mother on tour as a child in Michigan to rapping in Atlanta, forming a garage band with The Black Lips’ Cole Alexander to singing back-up for Cee Lo Green. Through these experiences he fully embraces life’s darkest intricacies conjuring dynamic, addictive melodies.

As Curtis explains, "The record „Face Your Fear“, to me, is all over the place because I go through moods, man. I change.” The dark title track was inspired by the feeling of a nightmare; a foreboding feeling, the spell broken by the clarity of awakening. “By the way maybe don’t worry Its OK face your fear” he croons on the chorus. Fear of the unknown, fear of the unfamiliar is a bad dream the brave among us must constantly shake ourselves out of. it’s something he’s had to practice his entire life as he moved from place to place and continues to practice as he moves forward as a musician, “Just putting myself out there and not being close-minded and just being open to different ideas and different sounds and different flavors and putting myself in situations sometimes where I didn’t know if I would make it out but you know [the mantra is], face your fuckin’ fear!

Face Your Fear features production by Harding, Sam Cohen, and Danger Mouse and was recorded in New York at Danger Mouse’s 30th Century Studio.

Tracklist:
01. Wednesday Morning Atonement 04:28
02. Face Your Fear 03:54
03. On And On 04:01
04. Go As You Are 03:58
05. Till The End 03:11
06. Need Your Love 02:57
07. Dream Girl 03:22
08. Welcome To My World 03:36
09. Ghost Of You 04:29
10. Need My Baby 03:17
11. As I Am 04:02

Personnel:
Curtis Harding: Lead Vocals, Guitar, Backup Vocals
Sam Cohen: Guitar, Bass, Keyboards, & Drums
on "Need My Baby"
Oliver Hill: Violin/Viola
Ali Jones: Cello
Amber Mark: Backup Vocals
Elizabeth Pupo-Walker: Percussion
David Christian: Drums
Raymond Mason: Trombone, French Horn