Hanging Out and Relaxing

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to be alone for a time, for a long time
on a road between contentments
witness trees in a line, in a long line
witness my resentments
every petty little thought of mine
 
where do you go, my darling?
when you do not sing
where do you go?
and you've been told 
the streaks of gold
in your hair mean nothing
oh no, not so
 
to be afraid for a time, for long time
that there's no angel watching
I see a sign in the breeze
in the wind in the trees
in the skies over Austin
 
where do you go, my darling?
when you do not sing
where do you go?
and you've been told 
the streaks of gold
in your hair mean nothing
oh no, not so

Witness Trees

Time to Melt

Easy to Love

Azari & III

Into The Night

A-Game

The Time Is Now

The Time Is Now (Edit)

This song is a response to the Orlando shooting...

I was really touched by what I saw on the train that same day. I was on my way to work, and I saw two men sitting opposite me, crying, holding hands. I must have internalised that, and the next day the song just flew out of my mouth, word for word. I used the name Maribel as a way of putting myself into the shoes of one of the Latin mothers who lost their child.

That song is basically a letter to her. The sad lyrics provide some sort of depth, and the happy music gives reassurance.

Losing You

The Barrel

Nobody Else

Sweet Lucy / Wild Mountain Thyme

Sweet Lucy

Introducing...

Bad News

What A Day

What A Day (Edit)

Ben Howard returns with his 4th album, Collections From The Whiteout, produced alongside Aaron Dessner (The National). The foreboding darkness that coated Ben’s second record I Forget Where We Were and thinly veiled its follow up Noonday Dream, isn’t so evident on Collections. These are songs written from headlines scanned, or news stories scrolled past, providing inspiration for a selection of vivid narrative snapshots – the death of amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst (Crowhurst’s Meme); Russian fraudster Anna Sorokin (Sorry Kid); the man who stole and crashed a plane in Seattle (The Strange Last Flight Of Richard Russell); and the dismembered body a friend of his father found in a suitcase floating along the Thames (Finders Keepers). Alongside them, the personal anecdotes from the same scattered period living between Paris, Devon and Spain. Yussef Dayes features, as does Kate Stables (This Is The Kit), James Krivchenia (Big Thief), Kyle Keegan (Hiss Golden Messenger), and Dessner. Thomas Bartlett, St. Vincent’s go-to pianist, and Rob Moose, a long-standing arranger of strings for Bon Iver, are also present. Long-term guitarist to Ben’s band, Mickey Smith (A Blaze of Feather), remains a reassuring constant. It’s a sonic adventure that continues this nagging suggestion that Ben is one of the UK’s most inventive and naturally talented songwriters. CFTW is his latest opus, and arguably his most fully realised to date.

What A Day (Edit)

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