Name: Storm Damage
Brand: Ben Watt

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

ROAD015V

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Colour

Green

Colour details

Mint Green Vinyl.

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Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Heavyweight Vinyl with 4 Page 12" x12" Booklet.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-01-31

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Universal

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

0885606001572

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / green

Artist

Ben Watt

Genre GB

Singer Songwriter

Label GB

Unmade Road

Ben Watt is a British singer, songwriter, author, producer, DJ, and record label boss. Born on December 6, 1962 in London, England, he is the son of Scottish bandleader and jazz composer Tommy Watt. Best known as one half of the duo Everything But The Girl, Ben Watt has made significant contributions to the music industry.

In addition to his successful career with Everything But The Girl, Ben Watt owns Buzzin' Fly Records and has been married to Tracey Thorn since 2009. His diverse talents have allowed him to excel in various roles within the music world.

With an extensive discography and collaborations with notable artists such as Tracey Thorn and The Blue Nile among others from his list of similar artists including Lloyd Cole and Beth Orton; Ben Watt's musical style spans across genres like pop, jazz and electronic. His unique blend of sounds continues to captivate audiences worldwide.

Unmade Road is an independent record label and production company launched in 2014 by musician, writer and DJ [a=Ben Watt].

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, 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.

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.

Emotional and inventive, Storm Damage is released on Unmade Road through Caroline International.

Storm Damage

Music GB

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