It’s worth remembering how young is. Still only 24 years old, the way he approaches both songwriting and its performance is with remarkable, unprepossessing confidence. The frontman maintains a shadow solo catalogue, and late last year he set out on the road for a string of trans-Atlantic live performances, re-casting his work in a different illuminating directions on each passing night.

Shows at New York’s historic Carnegie Hall perhaps represented the apex of this. was in the house to capture it for posterity, while Winter’s graceful, mercurial renderings were caught on pristine audio.

‘Live At Carnegie Hall’ is so much more than a simple live album. Each song is cracked open, allowed to roam free from its studio chassis. Opener ‘It All Fell In The River’ is blissfully soulful, the set up – just voice and piano – somehow conjuring entire landscapes.

‘Try As I May’ is lithe and balletic, while ‘Emperor XIII In Shades’ knows when to punch hard. A regal, sonorous take on ‘The Rolling Stones’ is matched by the frank, wise-beyond-his-years poetry of ‘Love Takes Miles’.

Indeed, it’s hard to truly pick out highlights, such is the sustained intensity with which Cameron Winter approaches his task. At times almost confrontational, there’s a sense of summoning, an incantatory flourish that adds a beatific glow to ‘Cancer Of The Skill’ say, or the Steve Reich adjacent minimalist chords on ‘Nina + Field Of Cops’.

Equally, taken as a whole, Cameron Winter’s recurring lyrical motifs and obsessions ring out – the religious language, the pain and regret, all point to a singular, very striking artistic voice, cohesive and whole and true.

Closing with ‘Vines’ – “this house is falling apart / and you don’t give a damn” – it’s impossible not to contrast Cameron Winter with some revered artists. Leonard Cohen is one – the dark humour, the spiritual longing – but Bob Dylan is another, someone who seemed to tap into the strange cultural undertows of the time. A quicksilver document, ‘Live At Carnegie Hall’ reaffirms Cameron Winter’s place within that pantheon.

9/10