Mozart Would Not Enjoy This

I'll kick things off with an absolutely beautiful song. I know it's not exactly new anymore, but I am just in love with him. Although I do have a Spotify account, I couldn't help buying the album in CD form because... I just wanted it really. Ben Howard has been compared with Ed Sheeran, and whilst I agree that the acoustic guitar style is quite similar, with the complex patterns and the repetition of riffs, I think they are quite different really. Ed Sheeran has sort of become a representative for the youth of today and brings very different musical tastes together, such as grime and indie. His lyrics are very much about everyday battles that people have to face, such as Small Bump , in which he describes the excitement of an unborn baby, only to have the devastation of a miscarriage, echoed in the melancholy undertones throughout the song.

So this is hopefully gonna be a bit like the Radio 1 presenters' Big Thing of the week I guess. Except I'm not a Radio 1 presenter (yet), and I might not stick to the strict "once a week" thing. Basically what I'm aiming to do is start a blog which captures my favourite songs of the moment. I'll analyse them a bit, say why I like them and compare them to other songs. Please bear with me; I've never done a blog before (and I'm quite sure that writing twice in a diary at the age of eight doesn't count). Please also note that a lot of the music on my most listened to Spotify playlist, the "Starred", is probably directly descended from Radio 1's music, with a branch of the family tree coming from my own family's influences. Enjoy!