Benjamin Clementine - I Tell A Fly (!!!!!)

Spellbinding, whimsical proggy operatic weirdness that channels everyone from Bowie to Van Dyke Parks, Arthur Lee to Robert Wyatt and sounds like it was composed entirely in one drunken late night stumble home. I'd say it's far too ambitious for its own good, but my god is this good and definitely a late-entry for my EOY poll

Yeah it's really good! I brought it up in the overlooked releases thread. I think people tend to overstate the weirdness but it's a decent art-pop album.

By the Ports of Europe gets stuck in my head a lot

yeah it's good

yeah this album is fairly bonkers I think, it's very good.

it reminds me, slightly, of rufus wainwright but nuttier

i remember listening to "cornerstone" a couple years ago and trying to predict if ILM would love or hate it

this is amazing

for whatever reason, rufus wainwright always sounded good on paper and drove me fuckin nuts in practice

this is great, i'd throw roxy music in the mix too...but yeah it's got a lot of moxie and very hooky

i started listening to this and almost immediately thought "hmm this is Not For Me" and then i looked at the tracklisting again and saw a song called "paris cor blimey" so i turned it off

divine comedy a bit perhaps as well? anyway yeah, late contender for best of 2017 list for me

agree about Rufus - great voice and arrangements but not quite got his foot on the weirdness pedal enough for me not to get bored, so that's why BC is so welcome in my life.

I've listened to the album 4 times through since starting this thread. It's good that it feels nice and short.

has anyone seen him live? he's coming to mpls in february

when i discovered the album i thought 'I wonder if he's playing Bristol'. Googled it. He played here on 7th December :-(