Benjamin Clementine - At Least - At Least For Now [CD]

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At Least For Now, the critically acclaimed debut album by 26 year-old singer/songwriter Benjamin Clementine, has won the Mercury Music Prize 2015 \u2018Album of the Year\u2019. The news came on Friday November 20 as Lauren Laverne announced the winner at the awards ceremony, which took place in the Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House in London. The judging panel described Clementine as \u201ca remarkable new pianist and singer \u2013 dramatic, intimate and pulsatingly original\u201d.\r
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Released in the UK through Behind / Virgin EMI, At Least For Now has been described as a \u201cremarkable, beyond-categorisation debut album - genuinely heart-wrenching\u201d (Sunday Times), \u201ca masterpiece\u201d (Independent On Sunday) and Clementine \u201can extraordinary new musical talent. Incredible\u201d (Evening Standard). The album has led to Clementine selling out six headline shows in London, including David Bryne\u2019s Meltdown Festival and a forthcoming headline date at St John at Hackney on December 7. Overseas, Clementine has received \u201cBest New Act\u201d honours at Les Victoires de la Musique, the French equivalent of the Grammys, alongside sold-out shows across Europe and the US.\r
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Clementine has packed a lot into his 26 years: heartbreak, homelessness, reinvention, before reaching cult status in Paris and returning home in unlikely circumstances to make his UK live debut on Later\u2026With Jools Holland, since described by the BBC as \u201cone of the greatest Jools moments of any era.\u201d Raised in London\u2019s Edmonton, he stumbled upon classical radio rather than contemporary pop; a sparse piano solo by Erik Satie in particular transformed the way he played. At 16 years old, in a rare moment of permitted TV watching, he caught New York avant-gardists Antony and the Johnsons performing the disarmingly naked \u2018Hope There\u2019s Someone\u2019 on the BBC. \u201cI was confused, scared\u2026it was another world,\u201d says Clementine. Further inspired by figures like Leonard Cohen and Jake Thackray - and with no emotional or employment ties to keep him in London - Benjamin absconded to Paris aged 20; sleeping rough, working in kitchens and busking out of economic necessity. \r
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At Least For Now is the result of this self-education and wandering spirit. Opening track \u2018Winston Churchill\u2019s Boy\u2019 begins with the line, \u201cNever in the field of human affection / Had so much been given for so few attention\u201d, paraphrasing Churchill\u2019s legendary WWII speech to pinpoint the gulf between himself and his family, growing up. That tone of freedom also defines the ten tracks that follow, as does Benjamin\u2019s vocal style: sometimes soulful, but occasionally breaking into the startling (the spoken word, song-within-a-song aria of \u2018Adios\u2019, befitting a visit from angels, or the manic laugh of \u2018Quiver A Little\u2019). Unfettered but equally focused, the rhythmic, string-laden \u2018Nemesis\u2019 was written after the disillusioning end of an affair, when Clementine found himself back sleeping rough on the boulevard where his girlfriend once lived (the rolling peals of \u2018Cornerstone\u2019 also cover this period). And though \u2018London\u2019 chronicles the push-pull bonds of returning home, At Least For Now ultimately sticks to that more singular path.\r
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Limited digipack album\r
Standard jewel case album\r
Double gatefold LP including free download.\r
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Stickered with Mercury Prize winner logo\r

1. Winston Churchills Boy

2. Then I Heard A Bachelors Cry

3. London

4. Adios

5. St-Clementine-On-Tea-And-Croissants

6. Nemesis

7. The People And I

8. Condolence

9. Cornerstone

10. Quiver A little

11. Gone