“The alluring drama and unpredictability of Benjamin Clementine's I Tell a Fly”
“There’s been a slew of artists releasing state of the nation albums in the wake of Trump’s election and Brexit but few have done so as intriguingly as Benjamin Clementine. A narrative-led release about the alien, it’s given credence by a musician who has experience of being ‘the migrant, the stranger… the refugee’. A self-taught classical pianist from Edmonton, north London he became homeless and”
“British singer-songwriter Benjamin Clementine brings more bells and whistles on his sophomore album I Tell a Fly, but it's unfortunately a case of more being less.”
