Blog: Muso's Guide

Keaton Henson - Dear... By Russell Warfield Part of me thinks I should go really, really easy on Keaton Henson 's debut album Dear... . Recorded alone in his bedroom and never performed live owing to Henson’s crippling anxiety, I'm reticent to turn the screws on a release which presumably marks a huge leap of courage for him, being brave enough to submit these songs for public approval. But combining the brink-of-tears vocal work of people like Damien Rice and Perfume Genius with the rustic fingerpicking [...]