Halls: I Am Not Who You Want

Without a doubt, the write-up you should spent your Thursday morning reading is The Line Of Best Fit writer Josh Hall’s review of Lana Del Ray’s London Scala show last night. His most pressing point highlights the distressing falseness and plasticity of her songs and her lyrics. Faux-emotion.
Yet here, we have Sam Howard, making what is a reasonable and completely natural next-step on from icy cold electronics to icy cold electronics with heart-gripping, sombre vocals to boot. The Sebastian Novels video - focusing entirely on an underwater rose, dipped in black ink - only goes to affirm the genuine beauty that sits within one of Howard’s songs; a sense of beauty that runs coherent through his next EP, ‘Fragile’. 

The EP, out on 12”, is available for pre-order at The Sounds of Sweet Nothing