The Englishman Charlie Winston started his solo writing path playing all over Europe on a shoestring: Germany, France, Italy, Spain – he was out performing anywhere anytime. In the two years since his sophomore Hobo album, Charlie has refined his sound; a reaction to the music he’s hearing in 2014 – Alt-J, Lorde, Daft Punk. If Hobo was a romanticised sepia image of the troubadour and his second album Running Still was a punk and hip-hop influenced work referencing The Beastie Boys and the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Blood Sugar Sex Magik, then his new studio album Curio City is framed by electronica and futurism. Reflecting back the matured, deeper parts of his experience, Charlie Winston has created a new album that is as contemporary as it is undeniably his own.