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Robert Vincent – The Passage

• 19th Mar 2013

Liverpudlian singer Robert Vincent returns with a brand new, uptempo single “The Passage”, produced by Pete Smith, released April 15th on DB Industries.

It follows the successful launch of his debut album “Life In Easy Steps” in February, which received an array of four-star reviews from key music press as well as a prestigious BBC Radio 2 playlist spot with the previous, title track single. Vincent is becoming such a figurehead for the new wave of artists emerging from Liverpool that he was also the focus of a recent Sunday Times Culture feature on the subject.

Robert’s new single “The Passage” is an upbeat song with an engaging melody, but underpinned by piercing lyrics. “For me,” he says, “it has been easy to forget certain parts of my past because I think they have been harmful, but then I realise that those very memories have taught me too. It’s easy to hang onto them in a bad way and inflict those things onto others. ‘You took what I’d been given, I can’t explain as such,’ that line suggests how we can hang onto some of these situations in a bad way, and pass on bad experiences to others.”

Vincent says the “Life In Easy Steps” album is the sum of his own experiences. “It’s very much my own book of ‘Life in Easy Steps,’ if it existed,” he says. “It’s something to remind me and hopefully some of you may get something out of it too.” The singer-songwriter has spent the last year building up a solid fanbase through his relentless touring schedule, which continues apace for the rest of 2013, and the album has been warmly received by some of the industry’s biggest tastemakers. His follow-up single “The Passage” proves that, even if the steps haven’t actually been easy at all, it is indeed Robert Vincent’s time to shine.