New soul sensation on the block, Wyn Starks, has released ‘Circles’ in the UK due to popular demand, which is one of our favourite kinds of demands.
Take a listen, and you’ll get the popular demand thing. Then wonder why you weren’t an early adopter like those clever demanding types.
Wyn, the pop-soul star with a voice that takes you back, right back, to the delicious likes of Leon Bridges and Stevie Wonder with a little bit of Prince thrown in. ‘Circles’, the track that gets you right there with its Motown riffs and falsetto vocals that hit that magic spot quicker than you can say smash hit.
The video, too, is stripped-back simple and simply beautiful. Just him, a mic, a piano, and someone to play that piano beautifully.
It’s a stunning UK get-to-know-him track from the Minneapolis native who upped ship to Nashville to pursue the only thing he really could, making soulful old-school R&B, the kind he grew up with. And thank whichever lord you fancy for that, because it’s the retro soul vibes we’re missing in a world of hyper-production and voices that seem to have gone through the wash. And while you’re at it, take a look at his Youtube page. Those two million-and-odd people can’t be wrong.