Paul Capsis – Make Me A King
On his newest collection, the focus is — rightly — on Paul Capsis’ incredible, otherworldly voice. Production is stripped back, without the electronic flourishes found on his previous album, Everybody Wants To Touch Me. What’s amazing is how different Capsis sounds on each song. He swings from a kittenish purr on opener, Nina Simone’s Feelin’ Good, to a deliberately ugly howl in the dark, Gothic #1 Crush, originally by Garbage. He even manages to make oft-covered classics like Cry Me A River entirely his own.
