Album Review: Ben Watt - Fever Dream

4 April 2016 | 4:07 pm | Tara Johnston

"...thoughtful, slightly melancholy songs that benefit from maturity and subtle production."

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A new album from the very established artist/producer/DJ Ben Watt (notably of Everything But The Girl) might be the album you didn't know you were waiting for.

Fever Dream is a singer-songwriter album with thoughtful, slightly melancholy songs that benefit from maturity and subtle production. The loose, easy pace and twinkling keyboard on Between Two Fires is inviting like a Tobias Jesso Jr song. Bernard Butler's guitar on Women's Company adds extra wistfulness. On Bricks & Wood the line "It was our parent's house no more" is simple yet weighty. This is an album for the change of seasons.