Simple pleasures for strange days, espoused by Lancashire outfit Mr Ben & the Bens new album Life Drawing out now via Bella Union.
Never straying far from a sparse formula, established back in the day by the likes of Gorky's Zygotic Mynci and Belle & Sebastian, and worked on more recently by Peter & the Pirates, the band evoke romantic small town atmospheres on each of the twelve songs here.
Sunlit, yearning melodies that sound just right for Summer months. Even ones spent largely indoors, and apart from the ones you would like to be with, as may be the case for many this year.
Drawing on the teenage experience of first loves and first heartbreak. Mr Ben & the Bens don't establish new templates, but carve out fresh pleasures from existing ones. Like an hour spent in front of a TV reliving personal childhood family favourites, or a walk in a local park with friends, Life Drawing is a collection of small but perfectly formed moments.
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