Charlotte Day Wilson

Charlotte Day Wilson can make a single moment stretch into a lifetime of feeling. It’s not just that herwarm voice recalls the jazz phrasings of classic torch singers, or that her smoldering anthems aremethodically paced, allowing her emotions to lingerlong after the song finishes. But throughout her self-made career, the Toronto-born-and-raised singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist hasdeveloped a masterful ability to unpack modern lamentations with a sense of timelessness, captivatinglisteners across generations.

Cyan Blue, her debut album on XL Recordings arriving May 3, showcases the next evolution of Wilson’stime-bending songwriting. Through 13 hypnotizing tracks, she continues to use music as a vessel forunpacking relationships, which in turn allows her to meet and understand herself in life-spanning,panoramic focus. The crux of the album lies in its title-track, on which Wilson addresses her younger selfin a liminal space between dream and reality, then and now. “I wish I could see through your eyes / Onemore time,” she sings. With those unadorned words of wisdom, she collapses the beauty and frustrationsof the past, the burning immediacy of the present, and the possibility of the future in one fell swoop.