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There's Always Hope, There's Always Cabernet

Benjamin Shaw

There's Always Hope, There's Always Cabernet

Debut album from Blackpool-born, London-based lo-fi singer-songwriter

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6.0

Label
Audio Antihero
UK Release date
21/11/2011
US Release date
21/11/2011
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  1. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    The album is not instant, it does take more than one listen to really ‘get it’. However, the more you listen, the more you realise what a truly special album Benjamin Shaw has made
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  2. 8.0 |   The Digital Fix

    An album that is quite unlike anything else, full of blackened charisma and a sonic imagination quite different to most
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  3. 7.0 |   God Is In The TV

    An intresting lo-fi wander through a charged collage of flucturating synth-triggered malaise, and surreptitous avant-folk. Shaw’s experimental montages are proof of an emerging talent
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  4. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Some of the most powerful emotions can bloom from the simplest of raw moments, and Shaw is an expert at crafting just those instances
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  5. 7.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Depressive perhaps, but hardly self-pitying; and very deliberately executed with both a delicacy that shows he cares and a rawness that adds a sense of spontaneity
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  6. 6.0 |   The 405

    A stripped back relaxing folk album that tends to drift along so frequently you sometimes lose track of when one song ends and another starts
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  7. 4.5 |   Bowlegs

    The constantly-downbeat pace of the album and the inclusion of too many forgettable tracks suggest that TAHTAC is unlikely to catapult Shaw from the obscurity he seems to revel in. It’s a shame, because when he gets it right, he really gets it right
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  8. 2.0 |   Subba Cultcha

    This album is contrived, desperately dull and so very very bland. Please make it stop…
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