{"title":"Ben Watt","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"storm-damage","title":"Storm Damage","description":"\u003cp\u003eCompleting a compelling trilogy of albums since his late-flowering return to solo songwriting and singing six years ago, Ben Watt releases his fourth LP, \u003ci\u003eStorm Damage\u003c\/i\u003e, and with it a new sound and fervency. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross 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 \u003ci\u003eHendra\u003c\/i\u003e (2014) and \u003ci\u003eFever Dream\u003c\/i\u003e (2016).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew album \u003ci\u003eStorm Damage\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonically 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmotional and inventive, \u003ci\u003eStorm Damage\u003c\/i\u003e is released on Unmade Road through Caroline International.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unmade Road","offers":[{"title":"Green | LP","offer_id":50417095115083,"sku":"1076515","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50417095377227,"sku":"1088816","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50417094885707,"sku":"1076513","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/591eea6c-97ab-4bc3-bea6-920577f33f6d_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726716562"},{"product_id":"hendra","title":"Hendra","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter twenty years in Everything But The Girl, and ten years as a respected DJ and record label boss of Buzzin' Fly, Ben Watt releases 'Hendra', on his own new imprint, Unmade Road through Caroline International. It is, in Ben's words, 'simply a folk-rock record in an electronic age' It's ten songs. Unsentimental. Impressionistic. Songs about close family and strangers, resilience and hope. All set in vivid landscapes where the outside comes inside and clings to the stories. Recorded in London and Berlin, the music is a meeting of worlds: languid folk, distorted rock and fizzing electronics; in part a result of the album's two central collaborators, ex-Suede guitarist, Bernard Butler, and Berlin-based producer Ewan Pearson. The album also includes one other unexpected stellar cameo on 'The Levels' - Pink Floyd's David Gilmour.Standard CDDeluxe CD in rigid case Digipack and with four bonus tracks of demos and live material.LP - Heavyweight vinyl housed in a Gatefold Sleeve\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50451582026059,"sku":"372824","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/f65a496b-f05a-44e9-b725-4ce0d279a88e_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727130751"},{"product_id":"fever-dream-2","title":"Fever Dream","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Fever Dream', the new solo album from Ben Watt is released on Watt's own imprint Unmade Road through Caroline International. It was in 2014 - after sixteen years and nine albums as songwriter-performer-producer with Tracey Thorn in best-selling duo Everything But The Girl, a further ten at the helm of his award-winning electronic label Buzzin' Fly, and a radio residency on BBC 6Music - that Watt returned to his roots as a solo singer and songwriter with 'Hendra', his second album. Arriving thirty-one years after his UK Independent Chart No. 1 debut, it met with wide acclaim at home and abroad for its eloquent lyrics and stripped-back aesthetic; it featured prominently in end-of-year round-ups and pipped Anna Calvi and Blood Orange to win Best 'Difficult' Second Album at the AIM Independent Music Awards 2014. It took Ben Watt 21 years to follow up his first solo album, 'North Marine Drive', with his second, 2014's 'Hendra'. Thankfully, it's a shorter gap to his ecellent third - 'Fever Dream'.LP - Heavyweight Vinyl with Fold Out Poster.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Caroline","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50494172889419,"sku":"398272","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/7d9d5bbc-e0ed-4ba1-a98a-b4f3c88559b5_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727703930"},{"product_id":"storm-shelter","title":"Storm Shelter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStorm Shelter\u003c\/i\u003e is a 6-track companion piece to his acclaimed 2020 studio album \u003ci\u003eStorm Damage\u003c\/i\u003e. The mini-album, recorded during rehearsals for the \u003ci\u003eStorm Damage\u003c\/i\u003e Tour in January 2020, is a stripped-back piano-and-vocals set that was due for release during Watt’s world tour last year before it was held up by pandemic-related postponements and the ultimate cancellation of all his shows.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unmade Road","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50500958945611,"sku":"1132472","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50500959273291,"sku":"1132467","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/aec29a86-b582-4e59-a7d9-0426a5b357aa_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727780873"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_e482370d_thumbnail_4096_915da0e2-2447-4777-be3b-62fa069d58c9.jpg?v=1726716516","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/ben-watt.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}