ARTiST: Ben Marwood
ALBUM: This Is Not What You Had Planned
BiTRATE: 144kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: Broken Tail Records
GENRE: Indie
SiZE: 23.70 megs
PLAYTiME: 0h 21min 34sec total
RiP DATE: 2008-08-13
STORE DATE: 2008-08-04
Track List:
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01. Question Marks 2:12
02. Five Little Secrets 3:48
03. I Know What I Did Last Summer 3:09
04. Heathens 3:33
05. Claire 3:17
06. Fake It 2:22
07. Like It Or Not 3:13
Release Notes:
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Ben Marwood was born in 1981, and has been favourably compared to Conor Oberst
and unfavourably likened to James Blunt. Velocity have given him the nickname
'GOD' (upper case: essential), though it is widely argued that there is no
evidence that He was ever a musician and Ben most certainly can't be dealing
with people asking him for stuff all the time.
Ben, you see, is a finger-picked folk guitarist stuck somewhere between pop and
anti-folk, with his songs caught between being 100% genuine and totally
sarcastic. Thrown initially, and perhaps even prematurely, into the spotlight at
2004's WOMAD festival, Marwood spent the next few years honing his craft û more
intricacy, less power chords û before releasing a split 7ö single on Velocity
with good friends Heartwear Process in January of 2007, as well as featuring on
two split EPs on DIY label Broken Tail Records; Four By Four (2007) and Four By
Four More (2008), releases which collectively received airplay from XFM and the
BBC's Radio 1 and 2.
Ben has supported travelling troubadours (Chris T-T, Frank Turner, Jonah
Matranga, Kat Flint), shared bills with the plain eccentric (David Byrne, Senor
Coconut), mixed it with the loud boys (Jetplane Landing, Fickle Public) and the
up-and-comers (Glasvegas, SixNationState, Pete and the Pirates), as well as
being endorsed by three of his most favourite of DJs û Steve Lamacq, Huw
Stephens and Jon Hillcock.
ô.. it really isn't any different to James Blunt and it's not nearly as goodö -
the mag
ôBritain's answer to Conor Oberst's fragmented folkö - is this music?