Local (Reading) celebrity Ben Marwood releases album This Is Not What You Had Planned
Reading singer songwriter Ben Marwood gives away his brand new album This Is Not What You Had Planned as a free download on his website www.benmarwood.com.
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Ben is a prolific member of the Reading music scene, having done his time at Impact Studios on Wokingham Road, co-owns record label Broken Tail, writer for Drowned in Sound and a musical tour de force in his own right. This album opens with the beautiful track Questions Marks, straight talking and tortured lyrics of a man who’s incite in human nature and lost love is relayed in very British way.
The seven track album showcases Ben, not only as a great lyricists, but a talented guitarist – the forth track Heathens strums melodies so beautiful that you forget about the non-existent drums, bass or electricity, in fact. The juxtaposition of soft rhythms sends you skipping through a meadow on a summer’s day and the angst riddled lyrics bring you back into the grey hum-drum of reality with a thump.
Ben Marwood offers something that everyone can empathise with in his music, crippling and cutting, but retaining a sense of irony and humour. Unlike many of his contemporaries who whine their way through songs, to the point where even the violinists have buggered off in boredom at the self-pitying tirade, Ben matter-of-factly displays his emotion, pain and misery with a bit of good old-fashioned hatred and anger thrown in, sung with such conviction, straight from soul. This is the way most people deal with general wrath at the world and despair over life, swimming in misery with that stiff upper lip that keeps your head above water and the two-fingers held up high and proud.
“Magnificent” says Die Young Stay Pretty
First published 2008
Ben is a prolific member of the Reading music scene, having done his time at Impact Studios on Wokingham Road, co-owns record label Broken Tail, writer for Drowned in Sound and a musical tour de force in his own right. This album opens with the beautiful track Questions Marks, straight talking and tortured lyrics of a man who’s incite in human nature and lost love is relayed in very British way.
The seven track album showcases Ben, not only as a great lyricists, but a talented guitarist – the forth track Heathens strums melodies so beautiful that you forget about the non-existent drums, bass or electricity, in fact. The juxtaposition of soft rhythms sends you skipping through a meadow on a summer’s day and the angst riddled lyrics bring you back into the grey hum-drum of reality with a thump.
Ben Marwood offers something that everyone can empathise with in his music, crippling and cutting, but retaining a sense of irony and humour. Unlike many of his contemporaries who whine their way through songs, to the point where even the violinists have buggered off in boredom at the self-pitying tirade, Ben matter-of-factly displays his emotion, pain and misery with a bit of good old-fashioned hatred and anger thrown in, sung with such conviction, straight from soul. This is the way most people deal with general wrath at the world and despair over life, swimming in misery with that stiff upper lip that keeps your head above water and the two-fingers held up high and proud.
“Magnificent” says Die Young Stay Pretty
First published 2008
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