This singer-songwriter has enough subtlety to avoid becoming the next James Blunt. At least Mike Skinner seems to think so ...
Twenty-one-year-old Benjamin Francis Leftwich has been saddled with that most horrible of catch-all descriptions ? singer-songwriter. There's no escaping it, he does indeed sing and write songs. Thankfully much of his debut album, Last Smoke Before the Snowstorm, is sincere rather than sentimental. Mike Skinner ? formerly of the Streets and now, we had assumed, retired ? thought so as he was so taken by the album he decided to remix one of its highlights, Atlas Hands. For this exclusive Guardian premiere, Skinner's mix ditches the acoustic guitar and places Leftwich's dreamy vocal in a more aggressive setting of burbling synths and a driving beat punctuated by a looped female vocal sample.
? Atlas Hands is due on 4 September via Dirty Hit
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/jul/26/atlas-hands-mike-skinner-remix
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