Keaton Henson appears a self-effacing character; his thoughts on his music and how it scares him to think that other people will hear it, is both refreshing and unheard of in today’s music industry. Even his style of singing and basic, unproduced tracks are unassuming but incredibly powerful in lyric and emotion.
An artist in both forms of music and drawing/painting, he sold a lot of his artworks to fund studio time to record his material – with this particular track coming from a limited edition 7’ of 500 copies. So, thank goodness for YouTube, we’re able to seek his back catalogue and forthcoming releases – despite how much the mass listening audience may freak him a little.
An artist in both forms of music and drawing/painting, he sold a lot of his artworks to fund studio time to record his material – with this particular track coming from a limited edition 7’ of 500 copies. So, thank goodness for YouTube, we’re able to seek his back catalogue and forthcoming releases – despite how much the mass listening audience may freak him a little.
‘Metaphor’ is a contradiction in that by describing metaphors he wouldn’t use to highlight her beauty, he does in fact do so. Yet no metaphor could compare to the way she looks at him. A warm, rich and Autumnal piece of guitar mixed with the sometimes slightly off-key and quivering vocal makes for a wonderful track, in which such rawness simply adds to the authenticity in its meaning.
From the 7’ ‘Metaphors’ (2011) / http://www.keatonhenson.com/
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