Felix by Richard Sallis
Buy the full album and get two Bandcamp exclusive bonus tracks + digital booklet.
“2024 was a very strong year for music, but if ‘Felix’ is anything to go by, then 2025 is to be even stronger yet; it is hard to imagine commencing another year of music on a stronger note. Richard Sallis has provided not just music, but an experience, and one that demands your time, attention, and patience. The results are beautifully, gloriously rewarding.” - The Vinyl Fantasy (@thevinylfantasyreviews)
"While Felix traverses a broad spectrum of styles, Sallis ensures each song feels like its own distinct world. The album’s strength lies in its ability to balance ambition with intimacy, crafting a work that is as multifaceted as it is personal. It’s an impressive return and a compelling way to kick off the year. Highly recommended." - pitchperfectsite.com
"It’s just brilliant…. Every song works cohesively together, its bold, its haunting, its lyrically poetic and mesmerizing. I love the jazz fused with alt rock, the big wailing guitars, all of it. It’s angry and beautiful." - Chelsea Turner (Cherry Daisies, Orelia)
"Richard’s made a very good record. And I’m being a bit conservative with that assessment. My gut feeling is that he’s made a great record. I think this is Richard’s most dense, intricate, difficult, and rewarding work. Yet this record is somehow him at his most beautiful and accessible. I understand how contradictory that is, art is like that sometimes. It feels like each track is a different room in the same house, there an almost operatic quality to the presentation of it all. This is my favorite record Richard has ever made." - Gavin McIntire (Noise Beneath the Floor)
"Richard's most mature work ever, and I love it. Even not paying attention to the lyrics, it feels like a story being told. In the whole album, I feel the emotions Richard has gone through." - Maciek Buszman (Massieque)
"I have to say that Richard really nailed it. The flow of the album is pretty much perfect. Very good work on this, it really came together and I can't think of any way to improve it" - Jonii Vermeersch (aka @joniivee on YouTube)
Tracklist
Credits
SAXOPHONE
Oscar Hose (Station Road, Stock Exchange, Borrowed Chords)
CHOIR
James Quentin Addison
Daniel Altmann (The Cameramen)
Randall Boland (The Cameramen)
The Bronze Age
Maciek Buszman (Massieque)
Mark Charlesworth
Hank Chill (Ultra Shield)
David Clemmer (Sad Boy Union)
Jonii Vermeersch (Lonely Enclave, The CRTs)
Jeff Yeates
COVER MODEL
Rachel Sallis
Thanks to Aaron Williams (Stock Exchange) and Ashley Collins (Endling) for added assistance.
