Album Review: Run Fast Sleep Naked by Nick Murphy

For his sophomore full-length, Run Fast Sleep Naked, the Australian singer/songwriter formerly known as Chet Faker sheds that moniker, embracing his real name and a more confident approach. Less James Blake and more James Arthur, Run Fast Sleep Naked finds Nick Murphy in a warmer, more soulful space, the clinical chill of his debut left back in 2014. That album's "Cigarettes & Loneliness" was an accurate harbinger of things to come, a lively prelude to the overall tone of Run Fast, which humanizes his former sound with organic instrumental and vocal backing, light synths, and playful beats.

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