Benjamin Blower - The Pillar of Smoke

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Better be Ready

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Blood and Snow

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Beulah

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Holy Smoke

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Why Should You Give a Damn About Me?

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Everybody Knows but Nobody Cares

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O Unfaithfulness

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We're in Trouble Now

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I'm Ready to Climb the Mountain and Die

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In Memory of the Woman at Bethany

Partly sung, partly rapped, partly howled. Its organic and electronic, with hiss and fuzz... folk, gospel and beat poetry. It's Europe's spiritual underbelly.

These are funeral songs for the apocalypse, and wedding songs for anything thats left afterwards.

"Well, this is strange. This is ramshackle… and really odd. I didn’t expect this at all." - Isthismusic.com ...4stars

"Peerless release" - Thelineofbestfit.com ...87%

"loose, organic and totally compelling." - Cross Rhythms ...9/10

"It's so nice!" - Buck 65 on The Pillar of Smoke