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.

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Sarah Bird is an award-winning London-based, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist. Her honey-laced vocals and signature cool-girl vibes are in good company with Tove Lo and Julia Michaels. In the midst of the pandemic, a song that was recorded with just voice and acoustic guitar won Sarah the 2020 European Songwriting Award. Now signed to ULTRA Music Publishing, Sarah is combining her songwriting skills with EDM producers from around the world. So far, Sarah has had releases with Kontor, Armada, Ultra, Sony, Soave Records, Munix Records, Happy House, and Phxbl, and has over 6 million streams on Spotify. 
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