Chris Root - Wind Made of Kisses (2020) Hi Res

During his fifteen years of record-making under various guises, Chris Root has created music that’s been dependably – but deceptively sunny. His work with AM-60 and Mosquitos boasted breezy melodies and recounted dreamily romantic tales about chance encounters, stars aligning, charmed lives led on the beaches of Rio de Janiero, in seaside Mexican villages, on the streets of New York City’s West Village. But harbored within his hummable tunes was a hint of melancholy, a longing, that gave his songs a deeper character.

On his first solo album and his debut release for Team Love, Wind Made Of Kisses, composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Root pushes back that encroaching sadness to bring forth sunshine – for us as well as for him. It’s a welcome return for Root, who has used the album format as a kind of diary, "My Struggle" with lilting pop melodies.