He’s been releasing material and
building a loyal following on the live music circuit for a good five
years now, but the Howard-heavy 2013 Brit Awards has sent the
Devonshire singer/songwriter’s 2011 album, Every Kingdom, back up
the charts.
The folk infused, whispery, Only Love
and the, ever so slightly, heavier, Keep Your Head Up, have been
mainstays on popular music radio stations for several months now,
sitting comfortably with fans of the softly, softly, plucky,
sensitively unplugged side of the indie scene.
That said, Howard’s arrangements are
more pacey than his acoustic pin-up counterparts, making this record
less likely to lull you into a semi-suicidal comatose state than,
say, Ed Sheeran or Brits ‘Critic’s Choice’ winner, Tom Odell.
He’s also much more beautiful than
them, cripplingly so, which matters if you’re going to sit through
a two hour live show of his, which I imagine are quite simple, static
affairs.
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