LABEL: Island
CAT NO: 3851772
BARCODE: 0602438517725
Tracklisting:
Old Pine
Diamonds
The Wolves
Everything
Only Love
The Fear
Keep Your Head Up
Black Flies
Gracious
Promise
BEN HOWARD – Every Kingdom
(10th Anniversary Edition)
LP – Limited Edition 180g Blue Vinyl
Already mentioned in the same hushed, reverent tones as Bon Iver, Jose Gonzales and John Martyn. Building on a solid framework of nimbly plucked guitar strings and luscious backing vocals, Howard’s soaring voice dishing out glorious choruses like they’re going out of fashion. “radio-friendly it may be, but there’s nothing fey about Howard’s folk: his up-tempo numbers have the muscular momentum of a galloping stallion, while his more subdued songs are underpinned by sinewy rhythms and a certain weightiness of theme. for example, the lovely everything deals with the inevitability of renewal and change, while the slow-building and panoramic black flies is essentially a break-up song.
See below for tracklisting…