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.

Soundcloud account for mixes I recorded between 2008-12.

I used to write a weekly music column 'Deep Impressions' which doubled as an event brand that hosted luminaries such as Efdemin, Vladislav Delay and DFA's Shit Robot in their first appearances in Sydney. 

As a DJ I spun before the likes of Agoria, Apparat, Luomo and Acid Pauli, while my outfit Diatribe were the only locals to perform alongside Moodymann, Theo Parrish and Carl Craig at Sydney’s D-25 Detroit anniversary party. I also shared the bill with Richie Hawtin, Slam, Phonique, Konrad Black, Sven Vath, SCSI-9, Cesare vs Disorder, Matias Aguayo, Klartraum, Stephan Bodzin, Alexkid and Tigerskin, and played at festivals such as Subsonic, Earthdance and Playground Weekender.

I remain a regular contributor for London-based site Inverted Audio:
http://www.inverted-audio.com/author/chris-honnery/ 

Press: 
Inverted Audio mix / 2010 chart: http://www.inverted-audio.com/diatribe/

Concrete Playground:
http://sydney.concreteplayground.com.au/event/43934/cesare-vs-desordre.htm

Blouse blog:
http://blousesydney.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/mixtapes-by-young-magic-radge-chris.html

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