Listen Before You Buy

“A fashion has come back. Fixed in new version – and here to stay. Imagine Leonard Cohen, Elliott Smith and Bob Dylan. Remove 51% old man, two strings and add a new millennium.” Can you imagine it? Me neither. Never let it be said that I don’t give PR emails the benefit of the doubt, [...]

Buy the album from Amazon – CD Sitting on the tube with a friend the other day, I spotted a poster for Benjamin Francis Leftwich‘s album, pitching him as “Brit-folk’s pretty new voice.” My friend turned to me and said: “Mumford And Sons are already Brit-folk’s new voice”. True, indie-folk, whether Brit or otherwise, is [...]

“Everything dies, baby that’s a fact.” Bummer. Bruce Springsteen‘s “Nebraska” was loaded with portraits of desparation and, clearly, “Atlantic City” was no exception. That’s why hearing Benjamin Francis Leftwich’s version of the track came as such a surprise: everything dying has never sounded so uplifting. When Benjamin sings “now our luck may have died and [...]