Year In ReView: Our favorite Boston-ish songs of 2017

Chris Moreno, “Turn The Page”

Late last year, singer-songwriter Chris Moreno released Into The Sun, one of the more complete albums to come out of Boston in a hot minute. Recorded by David Minehan, it was a record that had a pretty varied appeal; while it’s easy to peg Moreno as part of a new crop of Boston artists filling an increasingly-closing void in the local country scene, Into The Sun touches on myriad other styles and sounds, ranging from classic to modern, without ever shifting from its pop-rock fast lane. His sharp songwriting acumen is on full display over its nine tracks, and in June, one of the album’s deeper cuts, “Turn The Page,” got the single and video treatment. “I wrote it at a time when I was going through a breakup and it was the first song that I had written since becoming a solo artist that I was really proud of,” Moreno told Vanyaland. “Writing that song reminded how cathartic songwriting could be, especially when writing about real life situations and once I wrote that one I knew this was something I was going to continue to do.”