Tragedy and politics inspired the new Ben Watt album, Storm Damage, which arrives on 31 January. “My closest half-brother died unexpectedly in 2016, only four years after my half-sister,” explains Watt. “I got stuck for a year, angry inside and angry at the political world casually detonating around me. I felt half powerless, half driven. When the songs fi nally came, some were dark, yes, but there is always room for light. Always. I just tried to put that across.” The music is a departure for the former Everything But The Girl star – a hybrid of acoustic and electronic instruments. “I wanted a timeless-meetsmodern live jam – the directness of an unadorned trio capturing the spirit; and the samples, synthetics and electronic boom capturing the psychological mood. I searched for one-off drones, spoken voices, feedback, urban recordings; not unlike the way I worked in the mid-90s.” Watt embarks on a major UK tour in support of the new material kicking off on 27 February at Belgrave Music Hall in Leeds.
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