Little Weight (2024)

""Little Weight" continues the progression toward the light in true 40 Watt Sun fashion, with slow and thoughtful deliberation rendered in a blend of shoegaze and doom that has been stripped of almost all distortion. But after a career built on music about grief, pain and loss, this album is at last fully about love, gratitude and healing. Instead of a feeble ray, now the sunlight pours in through the open window, mites of dust twinkling in the beams on a blissful autumn afternoon. ‘Who am I to feel so strong?’ Walker croons across the opening chords of "Closer To Life". Opener "Pour Your Love" revels in a newfound sense of affection, as does the tender "Feather" with its repeated stanza ‘If I could reach these arms, winding out forever, I will.’ Walker’s voice remains a study in the dissemination of emotion, not beautiful from a technical standpoint but wrought with such heartfelt honesty I buy his every word and every feeling completely and utterly." (Angry Metal Guy; 4 uit 5 sterren)