{"product_id":"marlon-williams-make-way-for-love","title":"Marlon Williams - Make Way for Love","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"col-6\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-12\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ng-tns-c14-17\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003eNew Zealand's Marlon Williams has quite simply got one of the most extraordinary, effortlessly distinctive voices of his generation-a fact well known to fans of his first, self-titled solo album, and his captivating live shows. An otherworldly instrument with an affecting vibrato, it's a voice that’s earned repeated comparisons to the great Roy Orbison, and even briefly had Williams, in his youth, consider a career in classical singing, before realizing his temperament was more Stratocaster than Stradivarius.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ng-tns-c14-17\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003e But it's the art of songwriting that has bedeviled the artist, and into which he has grown exponentially on his second album, \u003cem\u003eMake Way For Love\u003c\/em\u003e.. It's Marlon Williams like you’ve never heard him before-exploring new musical terrain and revealing himself in an unprecedented way, in the wake of a fractured relationship. In early December, Williams and his longtime girlfriend, musician Aldous (Hannah) Harding, broke up.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"ng-tns-c14-17\" _ngcontent-c14=\"\"\u003eWhile personally wrenching, the split seemed to open the floodgates for Williams as a writer.  \"…I wrote about fifteen songs in a month,\" he recalls.  Sure enough, while \u003cem\u003eMake Way For Love\u003c\/em\u003e draws on Williams' own story, in remarkably universal terms it captures the vagaries of relationships that we’ve all been through: he bliss (opener \"Come To Me\"); ache (\"Love Is a Terrible Thing\"); nagging questions (\"Can I Call You\"); and bitterness (\"The Fire Of Love\", whose lyrics Williams says he \"agonized over\" more than any). And there’s \"Nobody Gets What They Want Anymore\", a duet with Harding, recorded after the two broke up, with Williams directing Harding's recording via a late-night long distance phone call.  \"We finally got to talk it out,\" he adds. \"We still love each other very much. \"If \"breakup record\" is a trope - and certainly it is - then Marlon Williams has done it proud. Like the best of the lot, \u003cem\u003eMake Way For Love \u003c\/em\u003edoesn’t shy away from heartbreak, but rather stares it in the face, and mines beauty from it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 Come to Me\u003cbr\u003e2 What's Chasing You\u003cbr\u003e3 Beautiful Dress\u003cbr\u003e4 Party Boy\u003cbr\u003e5 Can I Call You\u003cbr\u003e6 Love Is a Terrible Thing\u003cbr\u003e7 I Know a Jeweller\u003cbr\u003e8 I Didn't Make a Plan\u003cbr\u003e9 The Fire of Love\u003cbr\u003e10 Nobody Gets What They Want Anymore\u003cbr\u003e11 Make Way for Love\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secretly","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45718897098926,"sku":"656605143712","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/6118\/0334\/files\/656605143712.jpg?v=1725650425","url":"https:\/\/morrowrecords.com\/products\/marlon-williams-make-way-for-love","provider":"Morrow Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}