The cold winters, the fulsome summers, how the tides can turn. Moving between city to hillside, from dusk to dawn, quietly in isolation to complete some of his best work to date. Treating the space as a part of the process to fuse atmospheric textures and reverbant tones that weave patterns. 

Hiver has seen significant support from the likes of BBC Introducing, Apeiron and Mostly Strings over recent years. Look out for new music coming soon.

FFO: Ben Howard, Ex:Re and Radiohead

Comparisons have been drawn between Hiver and Ben Howard, Bon Iver and A Blaze Of Feather (Sarah Gosling, BBC Introducing 2019).

"Powerful and heartfelt array" (Exeter Uncovered, 2019) 

"This is brilliant, so good" (Adam Crowther, BBC Bristol, 2019)
 
"Dulcet yet captivatingly enticing" (EarNutrition, 2019)
 
"Hiver’s debut EP is a full-bodied celestial spirit trip, co-designed to be in constant cohesion with the reverberated tones and harmonious instrumentation, to grasp every listener until the bitter end" (OnTheHouse, 2019)

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.

StevieRay Latham's distinctively dark, melodic, art-folk draws on comparisons to Kurt Vile, Blake Mills, Nick Drake & Neil Young. The young singer-songwriter signed his first indie-label deal when he was still at Art School and has since released 2 albums, 4 EPs and exhibited as an artist whilst still finding time to tour across the UK & Europe.

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