Benjamin Francis Leftwich: Last Smoke Before the Snowstorm – review

(Dirty Hit Ltd)The title "singer-songwriter" brings to mind a multitude of horrors: James Blunt cooing about beauty, James Morrison crooning about "something", Jack Johnson wooing ladies with banana pancakes. Benjamin Francis Leftwich bravely reappropriates the term, employing his imagination as a defence against the risk of sinking into platitudes. Box of Stones and Stole You Away pick up seafaring themes, Snowship conjures a Faustian dilemma and Butterfly Culture hides sexual tension and reli...

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