C, the album, available via LINE :
lineimprint.bandcamp.com/album/c
1. Charles Wesley - SOFTEN INTO THIS GREY OCEAN
2. Charles Wesley - FLOATING AFAR CATEGORIZED STATES OF BEING
3. Charles Wesley - THE ERROR
4. Charles Wesley - GRIMACES
5. Charles Wesley - TRANSPARENT BELIEF
6. Charles Wesley - FLEEING HOOK
7. Charles Wesley - SPENT SCENT
8. Charles Wesley - THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS DAWNS
9. Charles Wesley - SMILING HIVE
10. Charles Wesley - SOLACE
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As much as 'C' is a typographic sign and the first letter of first name’s author, it further symbolises a hook, something that tends to grasp, hold onto, or an open-ended envelope. The metaphor of the hook as a sound; and its potential to express emotional honesty in weaving rhythms, spoken words and chants. 'C' is also autobiographical. An attempt to portray how Wesley’s non-binariness was lived retrospectively—since he grew up not knowing we actually can express both genders at the same time— and how it is an on-going experiment through becoming, exceeding the ingrained, palpable and unconscious limits in being, towards an embodiment.
Either said, posed very close, or lurked in ambiance, the texts explore intimacy, love and perception at the digital age. Wesley’s voice, surrounded by urban-like glares, often resonates in opaque spaces, merged with signals and air-like pollution, desolation of late capitalism. By treating it, Wesley seeks clarity at an individual scale, inviting the listener to eavesdrop. Radical while manifesting some quirky simplicity, 'C' innovates in the field of electroacoustic pop and nods to different types of influence, from dance music to noise and industrial. Evolving into poetically—not-to-say subjectively—charged environments, it has the power of revealing both the joy and discomfort of Wesley's vulnerable pouring into this faith of possibility.