Collections From The Whiteout 2LP (Color) fg_Catalog Number_LPGRONI the band have not forsaken

the band have not forsaken the personality or passion of any of their earlier recordings

produced by studio veteran Phil Ek (Fleet Foxes

following the departure of Chris Bell

when I listen to it

The syncopated piano rolls in “Ophelia” (“I got a little paycheck/You got big plans/You gotta move/I don’t feel nothin’ at all”)

Collections From The Whiteout 2LP (Color) fg_Catalog Number_LPGRONI the band have not forsakenBen Howard returns with his fourth album, Collections From The Whiteout, produced alongside Aaron Dessner. The foreboding darkness that coated his second record, and thinly veiled it's follow up, isn't so evident on Collections. Written from headlines scanned or news stories scrolled, he creates an aural scrapbook that reverberates with tape loops and guitar FXs. An England puffed up into absurdity by political outrage and infighting all fed these