Tom Wilkins’ ‘The Imposter’ is a song you can witness true, fragile, extraordinary beauty within. During the first 20 seconds, I was captured, moved to tears and the song, the story, the musicianship and its magic held my spirit hostage until the end. When the song, the place and time were over, I had formed a strong Stockholm Syndrome towards the artist, a humble Cardiff-based superstar-to-be.
Tom Wilkins – The Imposter
Tom Wilkins has the rare ability to place mirrors in front of the listener which shows a reflection of pure humanity through his out-of-this-world talent and artistry. In smaller increments – his effortless vocals can tear one apart, but it doesn’t cause any pain as his words are like an ocean to purify from grief, as heartbreaking and true as they are – and the music, the melody, harmonies, stunning and unexpected key changes remind me of some of the greatest pop composers in the world, like Brian Wilson.
Just when you think it cannot get any better – it does. It is not easy to compare gifted people’s talents (especially when I am talking about one of my favourite pop composers in the world and keeping in mind the realities like budgets and earlier work), but I also feel obliged to credit Wilkins’s vocal quality that has the kind of power to rebuild broken hearts like Harry Nilsson – his tone is unbelievable, rare and almost as if some kind of ancient angelic power had been resurrected and delivered to us from the origin of souls.
”The Imposter” tells a story about being a stranger in a crowd where everyone else knows each other and themselves. Being an outsider within himself, Wilkins manages to deliver a work that will stand the test of time without being one bit of an imposter. The production is artistically consistent with the song’s theme – pure, revealing and allows all the instruments as well as Wilkins’s vocals do their thing and shine.
”Tom Wilkins’s music is fundamentally great. A budding superstar whose full bloom will be something truly extraordinary.”
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