Ben Howard - Collections From the Whiteout (Album Review) Tuesday, 06 April 2021 Written by Graeme Marsh
‘Collections From the Whiteout’, the fourth album from Ben Howard, represents the first time he’s taken a leap of faith with an outside producer. Aaron Dessner, of the National and recent headline-grabbing work with Taylor Swift, is the man given full access, bringing a fresh perspective that results in an album unlike any of Howard’s other work.
Here the Devon songwriter pulls inspiration from personal observations and odd stories springing up from news headlines, with the bubbly synths of opener Follies Fixture providing the backdrop for an immediate curveball. Finders Keepers, an eerie tale based around a friend of Howard’s father finding a body in a suitcase, is weirder still.
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melissa: breaking tonight, the race is on to salvage president trump s june meeting with kim jong un after a wild week that put it in jeopardy. a u.s. delegation hitting the ground in north korea to make arrangements for the singapore summit scheduled to take place a few weeks from tomorrow. this comes after a surprise meeting where kim apparently reaffirmed his commitment to completely denuclearize the korean peninsula. kristin fisher is live at the white house with the latest developments. kristin buried tonight, whether or not the summit is actually going to happen is still very much in question, but tonight and today there really have been some new developments that are making it seem like the summit may very well be back on track and the latest little mug it that today president trump spoke on the phone with japan s prime minister shinzo abe in the white house said the two agreed to meet in person and i quote to