Album Notes

"While technical talent isn't hard to find, poetic, emotive songwriting - the stuff that chokes you up or reminds you of what's important in life - is a rarity. Kris Nichols is among the handful of artists with such a gift for song."
Jeff Nall, Florida Today

From the depths of central Florida there is a voice. You know it's there, you can feel it. You can feel its sweet melodies and ambient bliss crawling up your spine in a possessing twist. It enraptures you whole. As it takes over your being, it sings its genuine tune of everything you have always felt, but could never find the right words to say. It is sincerity, passion, creativity and exaltation at its finest. That voice belongs to singer/songwriter, Kris Nichols.

With the release of his first full-length album, Independent Release, Nichols' is reinventing what it means to be a definitive songwriter. Nichols' uses unique song structure to tell the story, his story. Through his use of seemingly effortless and creative lyrics, melody, and composition, Nichols draws on the organic shape of a situation or relationship with an uncanny and inspired ease. Nichols' performed all the vocals, guitars and even the glockenspiel to fill out the sound of Independent Release. The songs eclectically range in dynamic; from the short acoustic "Anyone Who's Looking" to the epic and experimental "Noise," leaving no patch gray, but rather vividly transcended. Recorded for free by producer and friend, Mike Albert, the result stands at Nichols' strongest work to date - soaring and inspiring, original and propelling.