“After winning the Mercury prize with his 2015 debut At Least for Now, Benjamin Clementine chose the path of art, not commerce. His second outing, I Tell a Fly, was an anguished 2017 commentary on the refugee crisis framed by the conceit of two houseflies in love. For his third, Clementine – from London, but a veteran of Paris busking spots – finds himself on his own label, having seen out Covid in”
“And I Have Been encompasses Benjamin Clementine’s nomadic life”
“Benjamin Clementine, the Edmonton-raised now Los Angeles located musician, is one who hides in plain sight. Six foot three. A slick sartorial presence with his slim tailored jackets. An extraordinary pianist who sits behind the ivories barefoot, arched in a let’s say very un-ergonomic posture as he plays. He was even in that Timothée Chalamet film Dune for a bit. But yet, there’s little publicity ”
“On his third album—the first part of a projected trilogy—the singer-songwriter retains all his theatrical intensity while shifting his focus to songs about love, a subject he once spurned.”
