Keaton Henson announces new album "Kindly now"

‘Kindly Now’ continues an extraordinary journey for Keaton Henson, who quietly released his limited edition, hand-made debut album ‘Dear...’ in 2012, before a surprise Zane Lowe play led to a flurry of investigation into Henson’s identity and whereabouts. Despite choosing not to perform or promote his record in a conventional manner, his heavier second album ‘Birthdays’ saw Keaton make an astonishing return to the live arena: from playing one-on-one for fans, to cinemas, museums and churches internationally. Whilst beginning to write songs for ‘Kindly Now’, Keaton pushed himself in two extreme directions: first, he taught himself the art of orchestration and arrangement, and surprise-released the critically acclaimed collection of bedroom-classical music, ‘Romantic Works’, on the same day as his immediately-sold-out date at London’s Meltdown Festival (at the request of James Lavelle). Then, having completed ‘Kindly Now’, Henson pushed the more electronic textures of some of his new songs into ‘Behaving’, his first album of wholly-electronic music.

On top of his work as a worldwide-exhibited visual artist, Keaton has recently released his first poetry collection (‘Idiot Verse’) and scored the forthcoming Balletboyz’ feature-length World-War-One epic ‘Young Men’ in conjunction with the BBC (originally performed at Sadler’s Wells, and resulting in Keaton conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra). This has all – one way or another – fed into ‘Kindly Now’: an album four years in the making, from an artist of whom all you can expect is the unexpected, but reliably unflinching.

Reviews:

• “Delicate and mournful, yet without self-pity...remarkable” Guardian *****
• “Extraordinary” The Times *****
• “Haunting, dazzling and full of raw, unbridled emotion” XLR8R
• “It’s a transformation that makes the delicate beauty even more startling” Q ****
• “A thing of quiet beauty and subtle power...elevates Henson to genuine greatness” Loud & Quiet
• “Keaton Henson personifies the moment where time stops still” BBC