Wren Adeyemi has been very good for a long time. The Long Way Home is the album where very good becomes something else — a songwriter finally trusting silence, restraint, and the listener in equal measure.
Gone are the dense arrangements of the early work. What remains is voice, an acoustic guitar tuned a half step down, and the nerve to let a song end before you are ready.
A songwriter finally trusting silence, restraint, and the listener.
The arrangement
Across the record’s ten tracks, the production favours space over density. Instruments enter, state their case, and leave. It is the kind of mix that sounds better the louder you play it and the more carefully you listen.
The verdict
Not every track lands, and a couple overstay their welcome. But the best moments here are the kind you find yourself returning to weeks later, which is the only test of an album that finally matters.
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