★★★★★
English singer/songwriter Benjamin Clementine has been making the rounds with a couple of appetizer EPs in preparation for the release of his debut album At Least for Now. It's made up of eleven originals, a handful of the carried over from the EPs, and it sounds like he died eleven times while making it. His piano style is relies on repetition to drive the sense of drama, but that's nothing compared to his voice...
- www.popmatters.com
2015-03-31
★★★★★
Benjamin Clementine's tumultuous back story (a strict Christian childhood in London, a spell living rough in Paris and busking on the Métro, and then a return to the UK) has given him plenty of fascinating source material from which to craft his songs. His resulting debut album is by turns bold, brave, beautiful and at times quite brilliant. Clementine cites as a formative influence, and certainly there are vocal similarities...
- www.theguardian.com
2015-03-29
★★★★★
dmonton 24-year-old Clementine has had a rollercoaster ride from homelessness and busking in Paris to , a major-label deal and praise from Paul McCartney. His fascinating but flawed debut benefits from the bravery and adventurousness Clementine honed while tackling audiences aboard Parisian trains. Opener remodels the former PM's famous speech into a song about his turbulent upbringing: "Never in the field of human affection / Had so much been given for so few attention...
- www.theguardian.com
2015-03-27
★★★★★
On the cover of At Least For Now, Benjamin Clementine stands in a shadowy profile with a Granny Smith cupped in his right hand, as if Magritte's Son Of Man had finally plucked the offending fruit from his face but promptly swivelled away from the limelight. An appropriate symbol for this debut LP, during which the mythos of the Edmonton-raised Métro busker, who went from sleeping rough to impressing Macca in a barefoot Later.....
- thequietus.com
2015-02-12
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