Kip Winger, like him or loath him, is one very talented individual and with this, his third solo and the first since Songs From The Ocean Floor back in 2001, that talent is obvious for all to hear. Anybody however expecting the huge choruses and the chant along nature of the albums from the band Winger will be equally as surprised if they are coming to Kip’s solo work for the first time. And I quote from an with Kip from last year….

Both 'This Conversation' and its follow up 'Songs From The Ocean Floor' were real departures from the Winger sound, was this deliberate or just Kip Winger showing his own style?

KW  - My personal musical journey is much different then the band experience. My personal goals are to push the limits of my musical knowledge and abilities. I hate to repeat myself, there is no art in that. I have a world of sound images in my soul and they can’t be limited to one style of music.... If I forgo the commerce of it all, I can be true and pure to the soul of music within me, which in my case isn't very normal. For better of for worse my brain works like a Classical composer, I'm not much of a jammer. I actually write out much of what I'm doing on paper. The ideas tell me what they want to be, I'll work an idea until it sits perfectly in my chest...then I'll know I've brought it all the way it wants to come.

Well very much true to the ethos of that conversation From The Moon To The Sun sees Winger (the man) varying his output on the new album from the classical (Ghosts) to his take on material that originally appeared on the excellent  Xcarnation album. As a body of work From The Moon To The Sun is simply a collection of excellent music, not rock, not pop just good music.

I’ve played the album constantly since the promo arrived and it grows on the listener more with each and every play, the whole album is worth listening to repeatedly to catch all of the subtleties and nuances Winger has imbibed the songs with.  Overall the whole album has a slight Beatles feel to it, but in a good way, a feel that works particularly well on the acoustic driven Runaway, but singling one song out from such an excellent collection is perhaps unfair. Much fairer to say that From The Moon To The Sun is Winger’s best solo album to date.

Dougie