Ben Howard - Noonday Dream (Deluxe 2LP Vinyl + 7")

BRIT Award-winning folk-rocker Ben Howard spent time in southwest France and Cornwall, England, creating Noonday Dream; the result is some of Howard’s most impressive and immersive songs yet. Where his debut Every Kingdom favoured catchy hooks and rhythms and I Forget Where We Were introduced meditative darkness, Noonday Dream is, as the album title suggests, a series of unpredictable yet brilliant scenes that disappear too quickly. Ambitious tracks “Nica Libres at Dusk” and “A Boat to an Island, Pt. 2 / Agatha’s Song” move like short films, with Howard’s low voice providing poetic narration. “Murmurations” closes the album with a moving sentiment: Ignore the outside noise and be present for what matters. 

Tracklisting:

1. Nica Libres At Dusk
   
2. Towing The Line
   
3. A Boat To An Island On The Wall
   
4. What The Moon Does
   
5. Someone In The Doorway
   
6. All Down The Mines (interlude)
   
7. The Defeat
   
8. A Boat To An Island, Part II / Agatha's Song
   
9. There's Your Man
   
10. Murmurations

7":

1. Bird On A Wing 
   
2. Interlude 1