New music: Benjamin Francis Leftwich – Atlas Hands (Mike Skinner remix)

This singer-songwriter has enough subtlety to avoid becoming the next James Blunt. At least Mike Skinner seems to think so ...Twenty-one-year-old Benjamin Francis Leftwich has been saddled with that most horrible of catch-all descriptions – singer-songwriter. There's no escaping it, he does indeed sing and write songs. Thankfully much of his debut album, Last Smoke Before the Snowstorm, is sincere rather than sentimental. Mike Skinner – formerly of the Streets and now, we had assumed, retire...

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