And I Have Been

Benjamin Clementine has returned with his long-awaited third album, And I Have Been. It’s taken five years for him to release the follow-up to his critically acclaimed second album, 2017’s I Tell a Fly, but it has been worth the wait. As was expected, the LP is his most accomplished to date, a more dynamic, atmospheric and affecting body of work than anything he’s released, even his Mercury-winning debut album At Least for Now.

On his third album—the first part of a projected trilogy—the singer-songwriter retains all his theatrical intensity while shifting his focus to songs about love, a subject he once spurned.

And I Have Been is an integral piece of art that sheds light on Benjamin Clementine's once darkened and uncharted territories

The Mercury Prize winner’s finest album – or collection of songs resembling an album – so far

Who is Benjamin Clementine? The British singer/songwriter is mercurial, genre-defining.

This graceful, self-produced third outing by the singer-actor layers electronic and orchestral elements over a startling voice

And I Have Been by Benjamin Clementine: Joycean linguistics and impressionistic arrangements combine to pleasing effect

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