//Ben Howard Breaks Out of His Folkie Shell with the Help of Aaron Dessner

Ben Howard Breaks Out of His Folkie Shell with the Help of Aaron Dessner

If you thought you knew English artist Ben Howard—whose soft acoustic strumming and classic folk phraseology wafted breezily through the pensive lyrics of his 2011, Mercury Prize-nominated debut, Every Kingdom—you’d better think again. Only one track on his bold new fourth album Collections from the Whiteout—a hushed vocal/guitar intertwining called