Take the sparse, heartrending acoustic confessionals of The Swell Season and Bruce Springsteen. Blend them with the image laden pop sensibilities of James Blunt and Neil Finn and you’ll arrive at the emotive landscapes showcased on David Christopher’s debut album, Apartment.

Apartment is the culmination of a solo career that began in 2008 in Hamburg, Germany, the city that became David’s adopted home following a tenure as a full-time touring musician. Between performing Hamburg’s infamous Reeperbahn strip as well as the London singer/songwriter scene, it was through the cultural displacement of his newfound existence that David absorbed the subtle minutiae, chance encounters, connections and experiences that would come to inform his songwriting.

The ten songs that make up Apartment are character studies in love, loss, introspection, absence, displacement and hope, inspired as much by their author’s travels as by the multitude of observations made along the way. Painted in broad cinematic vignettes, each song plays like a scene from a film: harbour lights flickering out in the dawn of a new morning, a lover’s plane departing while a loner sleeps to the hum of morning traffic, regrets and ruminations set against a cityscape backdrop. Welcome to Apartment life.

Recorded over a six-week period at David’s home studio in the NSW coastal town of Kiama, Apartment was released on 22nd November, 2013 through Crimson Retriever Records.