Fred Neil’s classic slips into Angela Chambers’ moonlit Americana spell on ‘Everybody’s Talkin’’ –

The pen has always looked lethal in Angela Chambers’ grip, more haunting than standing on unhallowed ground during witching hour, but she puts it to rest for her latest release, Everybody’s Talkin’. The actress, model, flautist and singer-songwriter reworks the Fred Neil classic, made immortal by Harry Nilsson in Midnight Cowboy, through her own Americana-laced nocturnal sensibility.

Under Angela Chambers’ charge, Everybody’s Talkin’ wears a quasi-mystic new skin. The winding Americana chords, lush chamber orchestral swells and sheer sublimity of her smoky-with-melancholy harmonies light the release in a nocturnal romantic glow, allowing desire to slow-burn through the rework, moving at a teasing pace that lets you drink in the lush decadence of Chambers’ multi-faceted aesthetic talents.

Chambers has moved through alternative pop, rock, Italo-disco, cinema, modelling and voice work, carrying a life split between the US and Germany into music drawn from everyday bruises and matters of the heart. You can hear why Lana Del Rey, Janis Joplin, Annie Lennox, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie and Lady Gaga sit in her reference field; she shares their appetite for drama, but filters it through a more intimate, moonlit Americana spell.

After sync placements, film roles and renewed creative fire following a near-death experience, Chambers has returned with a cover that feels glamorously haunted.

Everybody’s Talkin’ is now available on all major streaming platforms via this link.

Review by Amelia Vandergast