Album Review: Ben Howard - I Forget Where We Were

Howard follows his peppy 2011 debut, Every Kingdom, with the decidedly darker and electrified tones of The Burgh Island EP on his second longplayer.

The joyful, sing-along highs of Only Love and Keep Your Head Up are replaced with the deeper, exploratory thrills of a title track ode to new love and the profoundly personal and raw punctuation of End Of The Affair. Skilled at connecting in an understated manner through a gravelly voice suited to low/high register layering and heart-tugging melody, I Forget Where We Were celebrates the second coming of Howard.