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Ben Howard - Only Love
Every Kingdom, 2011 

I know I have posted a Ben Howard song before, but once you’ve listened to this you’ll see why. “Every Kingdom” is an accomplished record for a debut, and it paradoxically cultivates the intimacy of a beach side jam with the scope of human universals: the tortures, torments and triumphs of souls coming to terms with everything from love, their faith, to the elements around them, and it doesn’t ever step beyond the physical presence of dying embers of coastal firesides. Ben Howard either has an old soul, or he has learnt more about life in his relatively short time on the planet than most of us could hope to in generations. That sort of emotional maturity and the ability to interrogate it kind of makes me want to take up surfing… Seriously, if surfing has opened the doors for Ben Howard, then who wouldn’t want a slice of “Black Flies”, “Diamonds” or “Old Pine” handed to them by the ocean?

 http://tinyurl.com/benhowardeverykingdom