Owen Hartley

Owen Hartley is the pop project on NovelGrooves for the moments that need sincerity instead of swagger - the David Archuleta corner of the catalogue.

The sound is clean, piano-led, vocally forward pop. No production tricks, no genre-blending, no ironic distance. The writing is heart-on-sleeve: love songs that mean what they say, anthems that earn their sentiment through melody rather than volume, and the kind of hooks that work because the vocal carries them home. It's the simplest project on the label, and that's the point.

An Owen Hartley project by Lars Curfs. For fans of David Archuleta, Calum Scott.