Charlotte Day Wilson can make her words hit like a ton of feathers, soft in their presentation yet undeniable in their cumulative impact. “I went to a funeral today just so I could feel something,” the Toronto artist sang on “Funeral,” a morbid highlight from her 2018 EP Stone Woman.
Across that breakout project and its follow-up, her 2021 debut album Alpha, Day Wilson toiled over break-ups and the accompanying anxiety, self-doubt, and pain.
The heavy impact of her songs, seemingly written under the sheets or moments after the door angrily slammed shut, was cushioned by Day Wilson’s love of velveteen R&B.
Day Wilson’s latest project, Cyan Blue, is a new chapter. The music is far less tormented and more assured, partly a reflection of the stability Day Wilson has found in a loving relationship as well as a conscious effort to abandon cynical ways of thinking.
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