Ben Howard   Is It?
3.7
great
Release Date: 2023
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3.0 goodPikazilla | April 24th 23

innit

5 Bumps | Bump

4.0 excellentABjordanMM | June 16th 23

I feel like my brain is lathered in Ben?s seed and it just needs some time to grow

3 Bumps | Bump

4.0 excellentfluid in its most purist form. always drenched in an undeniable regal divinity. | April 24th 23

ben what are you doing please come home

2 Bumps | Bump

2.0 poordidnt ask to be staff, was made staff anyway, then got demoted for not doing staff stuff | June 22nd 23

Leave it to the talents of Ben Howard to make an innately subtle and feather-light album this obnoxious and shapeless.

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4.0 excellenti am worried that sput will die and i will never see u again EMERITUS | December 6th 23

rating 2223 this seems less significant im sure why

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3.0 goodKroehny | June 21st 23

A few standout tracks that are reminiscent of the drum machine + delay/reverb drenched guitar that worked on collections. Days of Lantana, Walking Backwards, Richmond Avenue, Spirit and Little Plant being the standout tracks. Couldn?t Make It Up is the weakest Ben Howard song of all-time, super cheesy diatonic chord progressions and the section that is identical to Africa by Toto? not a fan. The tracks on this album would be better served with just Ben playing his Jazzmaster over a drum machine like he did in his intimate solo shows post collections.

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3.4 greatErwann S. EMERITUS | June 20th 23

Benny offers bedroomy folktronica that strays as far away as possible from his early work, yet retains that undeniably Ben Howard feeling. These glitchy vocals and bleep-bloopy beats aren't my fave Howard iteration (ain't my least fav either, looking at you Collections) but they nevertheless show the man is always eager to experiment. It sometimes works, "Walking Backwards" and "Days of Lantana" managing to lift their melodies into my mind.

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1.5 very poorDeceased | June 17th 23

new wave written by chatgpt

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4.0 excellentTo me, Green Day in and of themselves are almost a cringe proposition in and of themselves | June 17th 23

i am naked on the balcony

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0.0 Dewinged EMERITUS | April 25th 23

Go home, Ben. You're drunk.

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