For years, the industry couldn't figure out where to put WILKES. Too soulful for rock, too southern for pop, too unconventional for country. Too Nashville for LA. Too LA for Nashville. They told him to dial it back, to Read more
For years, the industry couldn't figure out where to put WILKES. Too soulful for rock, too southern for pop, too unconventional for country. Too Nashville for LA. Too LA for Nashville. They told him to dial it back, to fit inside lines that were never drawn for a voice like his. In rock, they said lose the runs. In country, they capped his range. In Christian music, they called his gift showing off.
But a soul singer doesn't shrink to fit a box.
Sensory EP is the sound of an artist who chose himself over the machine. Four tracks of raw, emotive soul designed to reach past your ears and land somewhere much deeper. Now fully independent and connected to an audience that found him for who he truly is, WILKES has created his first complete artistic statement: self-produced (save one co-producer on a single track), self-written (two solo, two co-writes), and sung with every ounce of power he was told to hide.
These songs don’t ask for permission. They demand to be felt.
After years of bending to fit other people's ideas of what he should be, WILKES has arrived at the only thing that ever mattered: himself.
This is not a comeback. It is the first time he is showing you who he really is.
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Stay 3:230:00/3:23
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0:00/3:04
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Still Beautiful 3:230:00/3:23
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Controlled Burn 3:220:00/3:22
