Ben Howard
Every Kingdom
already mentioned in the same hushed reverent tones as bon iver jose gonzales and john martyn building on a solid framework of nimbly plucked guitar strings and luscious backing vocals howard's soaring voice dishing out glorious choruses like they're going out of fashion 'radiofriendly it may be but there's nothing fey about howard's folk his uptempo numbers have the muscular momentum of a galloping stallion while his more subdued songs are underpinned by sinewy rhythms and a certain weightiness of theme for example the lovely everything deals with the inevitability of renewal and change while the slowbuilding and panoramic black flies is essentially a breakup song' bbc Mercury Prize nomination 2012
Tracklist
1. Old Pine
2. Diamonds
3. The Wolves
4. Everything
5. Only Love
6. The Fear
7. Keep Your Head Up
8. Black Flies
9. Gracious
10. Promise