Continuing the tradition of
high-quality independent Australian country music albums, Bittersweet is
an impressive debut album from Tamworth native Mark Fitzsummons. Fitzsummons's
musical style has several influences, including country, but while it's not
strictly a 'country album' musically, its dedication to storytelling marks it
as an album that would appeal to the country audience.
Fittingly for its title, Bittersweet
is by turns haunting - rather than melancholic - jaunty and romantic.
Fitzsummons's concept for the album was that it would ' attempt to create
a life. One not content to survive in a safe haven of grey but filled with
darkness and light, happiness and tears.' He has achieved this not only through
the lyrics he's written but the way the songs are performed - and that is not
always easy to achieve. It is one thing for a songwriter to have a palette of
emotions to choose from in writing lyrics; it is another to be able to paint
those emotions musically. Bittersweet take the listener on that
journey of a life - we feel the highs and lows, the crowded moments and the
lonely times.
Hopefully Fitzsummons
hasn't exhausted his store of songs - it would good to hear more, and soon.
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