 
We interviewed Newton Faulkner a couple of months
back and spoke about his third studio album ‘Write
It On Your Skin’ and he told us that the
whole album had be written to be played live and
at the time we were left wondering how do you
write an live album but after listening to ‘Write
It On Your Skin’ it is easy to see as the
album is packed full of 10 catchy as hell tracks
that are going to make up the soundtrack to many
people’s summer.
With ‘Write It On Your Skin’ Newton
Faulkner is back in a positive way and back to
reclaim the top spot from his brother from another
mother Ed Sheeran who has been riding at the top
of the solo singer songwriter guitar god scene
for a couple of years now.
The album opens with ‘Pulling Teeth’
a track that has the potential to cheer people
up no matter how bad their day has been as Faulkner
has penned the perfect opener here and from this
moment the album just gets better and better with
songs like ‘Soon’ taking you on a
beautiful ride with Faulkner’s well known
slap style guitar work, and ‘Brick By Brick’
oozing in melodic style and fancy sing-a-long
lyrics.
‘Clouds’ is a perfect sounding song
with a big message running through about how you
should lead your life and not worry about what
others think and how you should be yourself. ‘Pick
Up Your Broken Heart’ is the token soppy
song from the album and is extremely slow paced
with an sad sounding chorus.
‘Long shot’ and ‘Write It On
Your Skin’ are easily the strongest tracks
on the album, they both stand out but in total
individual ways, ‘Longshot’ for example
is a track which builds up over time and the further
the song progresses the better and more up beat
the track gets with more emotions being heard
in Faulkner’s vocals, whilst ‘Write
It On Your Skin’ is the lead single to be
taken from the album and is the perfect radio
friendly summer sing-a-long track that will be
spinning around your head for days after one listen.
Newton Faulkner couldn’t of picked a better
time to release ‘Write It On Your Skin’
being slap bang in the middle of the summer and
when Britain actually has a spot of sunshine,
if you thought his second album ‘Rebuilt
By Humans’ was a bit hit or miss I can reassure
you that Faulkner is back to his best and ‘Write
It On Your Skin’ features some of the man’s
best work to date.
5/5
Review by Trigger
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