Kindly Now
The frail folkie is still full of pain and anxiety. Which is good news for the rest of us. After 2015’s electronic *Behaving project, the Londoner returns to gorgeous, emotionally raw confessionals. He siphons stinging regret into softly tumbling piano and brittle vocals on “Old Lovers in Dressing Rooms”, while strings drift through “Good Lust“ like painful memories. He avoids unsparing bleakness with crucial shifts in tone though: “Alright”’s teariness resolves into optimism, and “Comfortable Love” even rocks enough to suggest Jeff Buckley.*
Keaton Henson follows up the release of first two albums 'Dear...' and 'Birthdays' with 2016's highly anticipated 'Kindly Now.' A blend of meditations on love and unabashed confessionals, Keaton's music is at once startling, affecting and spellbinding.
After a second album of fragile confessionals in 2013's Birthdays, Keaton Henson released a collection of instrumentals with cellist Ren Ford called Romantic Works.
Keaton Henson established himself as a terribly sad and self-pitying poet with his first two albums of soft-spoken indie folk, then, in 2014...