Ben Howard - Noonday DreamNoonday Dreamwas produced by Ben and bandmate Mickey Smith. The album was recorded between studios in southwest France and southwest England. The transformation and development in Bens writing from his hugely successful debut back in 2011, to the immersive darkness ofI Forget Where We Were, and now on the cusp of another new sonic phase inNoonday Dream,should cement his status as one of the UKs most gifted and unpredictable of artists. 2LP Double 180

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Black Pressure will deservedly cement his reputation as the most disarmingly honest

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Subsequent releases followed

- Lee Hazlewood ‰ÛÏHe was a storyteller

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''Beating Heart - Malawi'' has connected the archive at the International Library of African Music (ILAM) with contemporary producers

On their second album the band learnt how to raise rock and roll excess into an art form

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