Storm Damage Ben Watt SKU: ROAD015V Barcode: 00885606001572 19.00 £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Unmade Road Released Date: 31st January 2020 Buying Format: 1LP Coloured Vinyl Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Completing a compelling trilogy of albums since his late-flowering return to solo songwriting and singing six years ago, Ben Watt releases his fourth LP, “Storm Damage” on 31 January 2020, and with it a new sound and fervency. “I needed a fresh approach,” says Watt, 56. “The album came out of an intense period of personal anguish and political anger. Sometimes repeating yourself musically feels disrespectful to the sharpness of your feelings. You have to search for a new way to capture the energy.” Across four decades Watt has maintained a committed forward-looking course, from the ardent echo-drenched folk of his early solo work with Robert Wyatt, through seventeen years as musical mainspring and co-lyricist in the best-selling Everything But The Girl with Tracey Thorn – and ten at the helm of his smart electronic label Buzzin’ Fly – to his recent moving non-fiction and mid-life solo albums, the award-winning “Hendra” (2014) and “Fever Dream” (2016). New album “Storm Damage” is no exception. Sonically adventurous, lyrically detailed and engaged, the album – written and produced by Watt – is a personal journey through anxiety and change cut through with an insistent defiance. “My closest half-brother died unexpectedly in 2016, only four years after my half-sister,” he says of events surrounding the album’s origins. “I got stuck for a year, angry inside and angry at the political world casually detonating around me. I felt half powerless, half driven. When the songs finally came, some were dark, yes, but there is always room for light. Always. I just tried to put that across.” Sonically the album forgoes the acclaimed twin-guitar approach of its two predecessors, and boldly shifts focus onto – in Watt’s words – “a future-retro trio” of upright piano, double bass and hybrid acoustic-electronic drums, set against a half-lit backdrop of lone analogue synths, spiralling echo spins and impressionistic ‘found sounds’ adapted from online public-domain recording archives. Low’s Alan Sparhawk makes a guest appearance on electric guitar and harmony vocal. “I wanted a timeless-meets-modern live jam – the directness of an unadorned trio capturing the spirit; and the samples, synthetics and electronic boom capturing the psychological mood,” he says. “I searched for one-off drones, spoken voices, feedback, urban recordings; not unlike the way I worked in the mid-nineties.” (Watt largely produced Everything But The Girl’s groundbreaking 1996 album “Walking Wounded”, the subject of a recent 9.0 retrospective Pitchfork review and reissued on remastered vinyl this November.) Artist Ben Watt Genre Rock And Pop Label Unmade Road Buying Options 1LP Coloured Vinyl Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl Condition New Country UK Track Listings Side A 1. Balanced On A Wire 2. Summer Ghosts 3. Retreat To Find 4. Figures In The Landscape 5. Knife In The Drawer Side B 6. Irene 7. Sunlight Follows The Night 8. Hand 9. You’ve Changed, I’ve Changed 10. 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