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CMU Approved
Approved: Freddie Dickson
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 23 January 2017
Freddie Dickson presumably thought he’d scored big when he signed to Sony’s Columbia in 2014. But despite releasing a number of singles and two EPs with the label, he gradually felt more and more lost in the major label machine, getting ever further away from his independently released debut EP ‘Shut Us Down’, which had got him there in the first place.
“I started to lose sight of what I wanted to do and kept trying to please other people”, he explains, having since extracted himself from that deal. “I now feel far more in control of my work and am really looking forward to what’s to come”.
He returns with his debut album, ‘Panic Town’, on 7 Apr, with the first single, ‘Martim Moniz’, newly released last Friday. With a tempo that progresses almost reluctantly, the song gives space for Dickson to explore the potential of his voice to striking effect.
“The album is a culmination of songs from the past couple of years”, he says. “I have stripped the production right back to allow my voice and the songs to breathe a lot more. Before everything was buried under so many layers of noise. I wanted the record to sound a lot rawer and I finally feel as happy as I did when I released my first ‘Shut Us Down’ EP”.
Listen to ‘Martim Moniz’ here:
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