U.K. singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Bruno Major announces his new album Columbo, to be released on July 21st via Harbour Artists & Music / AWAL Recordings.
Columbo is Bruno’s highly-anticipated follow-up to 2020’s To Let a Good Thing Die. The 12-track body of work weaves the autobiographical with the observational and stretches Bruno’s palette into new forms, yielding the most accomplished and “honest” expression of his music to date. When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, Bruno was holed up at his parents’ house in Northampton, where he first faced a blank slate, followed quickly by personal crisis. When restrictions lifted, he hot-footed to Los Angeles and hired a vintage ivory white 1978 Mercedes 380SL – he named it Columbo. It was on one fateful day during LA’s golden hour that his car came to its own abrupt end, plowing into another vehicle. It was there that the melancholic melody for “Columbo,” the album’s wistful title track, emerged, and so the story goes.
To celebrate the announcement of the new album, Major has released the album’s title track. “Columbo” pairs Bruno’s ethereal voice with a simple guitar melody, resulting in a track evocative of the classic American songbook. Paul Simon’s influence courses through the title track’s intricate guitar pattern and aching vocals as Bruno’s harmonies multiply and swell into a stunning vocal apex. The song conjures feelings of Spring, while the lyrics tell a different story, of love, loss, and freedom