Danny George Wilson

Wilson shakes loose his Champs for experimental solo long-player.

The title is apt, Danny George Wilson’s second solo LP relocating from the triumphal Americana of his work as Grand Drive and Danny & The Champs and presenting his native tunefulness in starker contexts. Recorded with youthful producer Hamish Benjamin, Another Place is a pointedly intimate work – lo-fi, introspective, unvarnished. Such an aesthetic serves the songs, which are darker and more unresolved than Wilson’s usual sweet-hearted fables, from the Sebadoh-esque Giving Away Too Much’s confession that “winning feels like losing” to the bare-boned chill of I Wanna Tell You, its minimal piano, drum machine and strum suiting its narrative of lost dreams and shadows. Covers of Spirit’s We’ve Got A Lot To Learn (featuring Jeff Tweedy and Gerry Love) and Sinatra’s troubled I Would Be In Love (Anyway), a duet with Emma Swift, round out an idiosyncratic gem that’s also one of Wilson’s finest.