In your face bouzouki, percussion, border pipes and guitar! Take a listen.

Age of Empires - remix (Toad in the Hand album version)

Mk III's apocalyptic 2013 E.P. 'Oh No, it's the End of the World'
Recorded at Farmrock Studios
All songs written and performed by Mk III

It Begins

Written on NYE 2020, To Your Eyes is stripped right back to just Benji and his guitar. About the song, Benji says “I find this time of year truly magical, a time to slow down and take stock, to hibernate, away from the busyness of the world, the anxiety of social media. I’ve had a few occasions where songs will come to me around New Years Eve, but this one stuck and I’m very fond of it. It’s about shaking off my jaded world view (briefly), appreciating what I have, and choosing, or at least intending to choose love, kindness, and hope”

To Your Eyes (out NYD 2023) is the second single from debut album Songs to Make You Happy, coming January 20th 2023 on Pear O’ Legs Records.

Welsh singer and songwriter Benji Tranter returns with his debut album Songs to Make You Happy. With a lo-fi, DIY ethos, unembellished guitars and vocals deliver a charming, sometimes chaotic, collection of vignettes; diary entries, polaroid snapshots, throwaway poems and short stories. The influence of US songwriters like Elliott Smith, Conor Oberst and Daniel Johnston is clear throughout, with occasional elements from Scott Walker, Nick Drake, and the care-free naivety of Jonathan Richman.

Out on the January 20, 2023 on Pear O’Legs Records.
The first single from the album, 'Satellite' is out now.

Songs written and performed by Benji Tranter
Drums on tracks 3 and 9 by Ben Howarth
Trumpet on track 11 by Jovis Lane
Tracks 3 and 9 engineered by Ru Lemer at Temple Music Studio
All other tracks recorded at home
Produced by Jovis Lane
Mastered by Ed Woods
Album cover photo by Calum Lynn

To Your Eyes

Welsh singer and songwriter Benji Tranter returns with his debut album Songs to Make You Happy. With a lo-fi, DIY ethos, unembellished guitars and vocals deliver a charming, sometimes chaotic, collection of vignettes; diary entries, polaroid snapshots, throwaway poems and short stories. The influence of US songwriters like Elliott Smith, Conor Oberst and Daniel Johnston is clear throughout, with occasional elements from Scott Walker, Nick Drake, and the care-free naivety of Jonathan Richman.

Out on the January 20, 2023 on Pear O’Legs Records.
The first single from the album, 'Satellite' is out now.

Songs written and performed by Benji Tranter
Drums on tracks 3 and 9 by Ben Howarth
Trumpet on track 11 by Jovis Lane
Tracks 3 and 9 engineered by Ru Lemer at Temple Music Studio
All other tracks recorded at home
Produced by Jovis Lane
Mastered by Ed Woods
Album cover photo by Calum Lynn

~Interstellar Stroll~

"Free"

LYRICS:

Spin little earth, 
A rock in the sky. 
Your brothers and sisters,
Mercury, Venus and Mars, they said, "hi".
Promise to care for you, 
Protect you from hell, 
And ourselves. 

Sober up son, 
And think of the world. 

Welcome sweet child, 
I made you some clothes,
Knitted with love, 
And stitched up with hope. 
Keep you warm when the winter gives you its best. 
And I wish you could see,
The joy in your mother as you took your first breath. 

Sober up son,
And think of the world. 


Written, performed and produced by Daniel Lukes in a treehouse.
Guest vocals by Jennifer Weeks.
Mastered by Jason Wilson at Stakeout Studios.
2015

A Rock In The Sky

LYRICS:

Sitting by the tube-side, it can be a tough life, 
A smile comes but there's something in your eye,
And I turn to speak but,
Nothing ever sounds right, I can never quite find, 
A way to convey what I'm screaming in my mind. 
And it's been a long day, 
But darling you're a strong one, I can even see it,
Though sometimes, I wonder, are all kinds of weakness the same?
Babe it's hard but,

When you say that you're sorry it's just another way to say,
"I care more about us than I do about this."
And it's okay now, don't worry, cause everything will stay just as it is. 

Well 'scuse me if I stare, but the ribbon in your hair,
Still looks like it did on the first day that we met. 
And I know things change but,
We're still a part of the same little parcel,
And it breaks my heart, but it's time that we let all this pass. 
We can let it go.

When you say that you're sorry it's just another way to say,
"I care more about us than I do about this."
And it's okay now, don't worry, cause everything will stay just as it is. 

I know things change,
I know. 

When you say that you're sorry it's just another way to say,
"I care more about you than I do about this."
And it's okay now, don't worry, cause everything will stay just as it is. 
It's okay now, don't worry, everything will stay just as it is. 


Written, performed and produced by Daniel Lukes in a treehouse.
Mastered by Jason Wilson at Stakeout Studios
2015

Just As It Is

All out of Love

Pray Now

Premiered by Julie Adenuga on #Beats1 

LYRICS:
I sat here for hours, counting the minutes
hoping for you to say, you wont be in this anymore.
These days oh my love, I have been here before. 
I want you to be someone i can look up in the morning.

Don't say 'We're so much better of alone'. 

I sat here for days, waiting for something
Its harder to take but i think i can take a little more. 

Promise me we'll never be alone again. 

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Produced by Jason Wilson at Stakeout Studios 

Picture by Graham Turner, edited by Daniel Lukes



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SAD BOY EP
PRODUCED BY JASON WILSON
MASTERED BY JASON WILSON

Gratefully Gracious

SAD BOY EP
PRODUCED BY AL GROVES AT THE MOTOR MUSEUM RECORDING STUDIO IN LIVERPOOL
MASTERED BY JASON WILSON

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