Noonday Dream
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Noonday Dream
Noonday Dream is the third album by British singer-songwriter Ben Howard. Wikipedia
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The 405
Complex, surreal and divine. Noonday Dream is Ben Howard's best work to date.
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NME
Monotonous and self-interested, it’s a disappointing listen from one of Britain’s most interesting song-writers.
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Pop Matters
Noonday Dream, the third studio record by the English singer-songwriter Ben Howard, transports the listener right from its opening moments.
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Independent (UK)
On his third full-length project, Howard expands the Cornish landscape that has impacted his previous work and brings in sounds and instruments that spark the imagination to places further afield.
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Hot Press
Noonday Dream cuts out for different territory. It’s a meditative, almost languid piece that’s not afraid to take its time and drift away, pulling the listener with it.
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Sound Blab
The record is easily characterized as a droning, long-form, self-indulgent collection of songs; which will surely elicit both feelings of dissatisfaction and fascination.
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Pass The Aux
Ben Howard maintains indie charm on ‘Noonday Dream’
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Thank Folk For That
Noonday Dream, certainly feels like a dream with its ethereal tracks, and to hear how Ben has also evolved as a producer highlights the personal and creative investment he has in his music -
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The Line of Best Fit
In Noonday Dream, Ben Howard has constructed us an oasis.
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Music Insight (AU)
With Noonday Dream, Ben Howard continues to find new ways to create wonderful soundscapes and an immersive experience.
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Glide
It’s a record that carves a small window into a man steadily maturing. If ideas of togetherness, love and the simplicity of nature felt pure and idealized in his early work; they remain here, but overlaid with the dusky shadow of experience.
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Exepose
-it’s clear Ben retains his magic and is still very much developing and evolving even now as an artist, yet he still very much understands the flow of an album.
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The Yorker (UK)
This album is a unique sound for Howard and the beginning of a new direction.
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Newsday
Noonday Dream, Howard is reflecting his travels with an eclectic collection of well-crafted inventions.
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Cryptic Rock
Brilliance shines from the mind of the troubadour on Noonday Dream and as this record is destined for Folk Rock history.
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Riff
Ben Howard weaves narrative splendor into Noonday Dream
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XS Noize
Noonday Dream is just as introspective as we expect, but it is safe to say that this record comes from a much different place.
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Treble Zine
Noonday Dream, is a signal that Howard still has many layers yet to unfold to his audience. A haunting collection of 10 longer, melodically adventurous tracks, Dream explores a darker side of Howard’s work, unleashing a new set of bone chilling chords.
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The National Student
Newest album, Noonday Dream, breaks Howard’s mould of soft, dreamy vocals with intricate, often major-key acoustic guitar, turning into deeper, richer vocals and atmospheric, scene-setting instrumentals.
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All Music
Noonday Dream is an inward-looking and unassuming batch of ambient folk songs that still manages to invoke huge vistas.
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Focus Zine
He combines his poetry and mysterious writing with the heartfelt acoustics we know and love, and the product is this long-awaited album.
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Citizen (ZA)
A blurry, beautiful messy dream that listeners will not want to wake up from.
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Sacred Exile
Howard has impressively carved out a sound unto his own with a truly beautiful third album
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DIY Magazine
‘Noonday Dream’ carries along this path, the singer’s eye drawn closer towards darkness than the radio waves.
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Relix
Noonday Dream may be Howard’s most accomplished album, a collection of stripped-down, but rich, complex songs that only come into view with repeated listens—and with enough time, reveal themselves as stirring, stunning masterpieces.
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Immortal Reviews
Ben Howard builds wondrous tracks in Noonday Dream, taking the listener on a trip through his own world, but internally and externally. It feels like the memoir of a lonely, broken traveler that ventures through an unknown land.
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The Guardian
With ambient passages aplenty and next to none of his old favourites, the chart-topper became joyless and closed-off.
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Evening Standard (UK)
Howard’s voice remains soft and delicate throughout, the calm in a fascinating storm.
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Radio New Zealand
It’s this mix of technical exploration, tonal experiments and developed songwriting that make Noonday Dream Ben Howard’s most accomplished album yet.
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Broadway World
The new recording continues to highlight Howard's sonic evolution with unpredictable and textured arrangements and rich, emotive songwriting.
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