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Without meaningful music life could get scary.

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.

It takes people like him in stormy times like these. Unconditional philantrophists to quiet the scenery.  Untouched, clever bards and the enthralling power of their songs. Ladies ’n’ Gents, please welcome: ­Pimało (spoken: Pimawo) alias Mario Alsleben. The title of his freshly dropped LP alone transports this deep peace which surrounds the musical aura of this native Eisenacher. “All the trees are still moving“ is the unconcerned, sometimes melancholic-implied proof that in the tradition-laden City of Wartburg not only Luther and Opel are synonymous with added value, but this friendly middle-aged man, whose well-trimmed beard is the perfect icing on the classic songwriter ”look”,  is also. 
There is nothing non-authentic about Pimało: His wonderful pub “Lebemann“ in the heart of Eisenach, his infectious friendliness, his lyricism, his music. His previous recordings suggest that the musician, who cannot be pigeonholed, has long tried being one with his songs about life, love, despair, sadness and all the beautiful moments that we would love to hold on to, but cannot.
“All the trees are still moving“ has become magical. It is a passionate album, sweat and tears soaked in every respect, the mature album of an ambitious artist. Eleven songs, which at any time sound fresh, absolutely unpredictable, but also demanding of its recipients. This music wants body, soul and spirit, not just half ... never half. The production itself is borne from the favorite tools of harmony: impressive vocal harmonies around consistently solid hooks, that are clear and often inspired by a beautiful acoustic instrument (guitar or mandolin), but also drawing from electronic elements, and a lot of dressed up ideas (a hand clapping here, brass instruments there), which is to be attributed to the diverse collaborations of Pimało and the creativity of loyal accompanying musicians. A “hidden gem” highlight is the song “Losing my mind”, a splendid and slowly built building, whose elegy reminds us of Neil Young and it’s also that song which every singer-songwriter would like to write at times.
One could come up with the best idea, Pimało’s songs unfold their full force in these quiet moments and this could be confirmed by intently listening to the new album. Finally, the Eisenacher himself says that he is “melancholy luxury”, and basically his song-making is based on this luxury. And yet Pimało’s new music does not do justice to this, possibly even too clichéd a statement, since the mid tempo pieces also have an immense power. Dancing belongs to our life compellingly, especially in stormy times like this. We need artists like Pimało, more urgently than ever!

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