Ben & Walks = ♥

Am I in your light, babe?
Am I in your light?
Am I forced beside you?
Am I in your heart?

Am I in your light, babe?
Am I in your heart?
Am I forced beside you?
Am I in your heart?

All my friends they
Let me know
I've a fickle mind
Before the shows
I've a brittle tongue
It comes and goes
I've a fascination
With all I cannot control

Am I in your light, babe?
Am I in your light?
Am I forced beside you?
Am I in your heart?

All my friends they
Let me know
I've a fickle mind
Before the shows
I've a brittle tongue
It comes and goes
I've a fascination
With all I cannot control

Am I in your light, babe?
Am I in your light?
Am I forced beside you?
Am I in your light, babe?

 

Am I In Your Light - Ben Howard

My Room ♥

Hallo ihr Lieben,

heute habe ich ein paar Fotos wiedergefunden, die ich vor einiger Zeit gemacht habe und wollte sie mit euch teilen weil ich sie immer noch recht schön finde und sich in meinem Zimmer seitdem nicht viel verändert hat. Ich hoffe ihr habt eine schöne Woche! ♥

Hello everybody, 

I came across some photos of my room that I took some time ago, and I really wanted to share them with you! I hope you have a great week!  ♥

Top 5 of 2014 - Music

Like I already said about 10 times before, I am a music person. And therefore, I am of course sharing my favourite 2014 albums with you. 

First of all, I Forget Where We Were. I think I've said enough when I name it to be the current soundtrack of my life.

And of course I also have to put Every Kingdom in here, as well as all of his EPs and unreleased songs, this is just what I listened to most and what I will always connect with this year. 

 Then another older album I really fell in love with recently - If You Leave by Daughter. This is probably the saddest and most depressive album I've ever heard, but as I love sad and depressing music I of course was bound to love it. Elena's voice is so, i don't know, clear and gloomy and melancholic and the lyrics are just touching and so true. Smother and Still are my favourite tracks right now. 

I remember the day Ultraviolence was released. I was ill, at home in my bed, so I downloaded the album to my mobile phone and listened to it about four times in a row. Then I decided to order it on vinyl.

 I love Lana, I love her deep, husky voice and her, I don't know, beautiful sadness. Ultraviolence comforts me somehow and makes me so calm. Sad, but calm. And she's so beautiful. 

And last, another old one I had on repeat this year: Bon Iver's For Emma, Forever Ago. This is just flawless. Re:Stacks is my best companion for writing letters in the candlelight after midnight, and it's great company, for sure.

Of course this is not everything. Just to name a few other musical loves of the past 12 months - Damien Rice, Hozier, Coldplay, Birdy, Josh Rouse, Jacko Hooper, Charlie Simpson - there's too much great music in the world to ever be finished. 

Ben Howard, Part II

I forget where we were literally made me forget everything. I remember putting the record on the turntable and turning off all light, then I put the volume high and just lay down on the floor. Small things started, it was twilit outside and I just felt so overwhelmed by.. the voice, my emotions, I don't know. It's not that I hadn't heard it before, but it felt so different now! I stayed in that position and was just done with the world. It was so beautiful and dark and it just fit that mood so well...

The next month was a very stressful one, but whenever I could Ben was in my ears. The time went on so fast, and suddenly it was end of November and my friend and I went to Vienna  - finally.

It was freezing, it was snow-raining, it was dark and christmassy - perfect for this album in my opinion. The gig itself was - well I don't have enough words. I fell in a kind of trancelike condition while I walked into the building, it was all so unreal. After the support act ( Jack Garratt was amazing, he's got a beautiful couple of songs!) it got really hot and stuffy and I felt like I couldn't breathe, until they finally entered the stage.  I couldn't even move at first, and then I couldn't stop moving and silently speaking along every single line. They were all so great and it was all so, I don't know, perfect.  India was amazing, still can't believe how much energy she had dancing so freely and beautiful - I wish I could one day dance like her!

I thought it would last forever. I wished he would never stop. They would all never stop their amazingness. I never felt so free before.  When Black Flies finished, I was still in a dream. We went back home, but I can't remember how I made my feet walk. I can't remember how I put my shoes off or how I combed my hair. I just remeber that I was still lying on the floor (seems like my favourite place, I know) smiling and listening to Are you ready at three in the morning.

After this night, I became a "real" fan.

It isn't only about the music you just listen to. 

It is about the music you feel, with all of your soul and all of your body.

It is about the music that makes you cry and smile,

that gets you totally down but also makes you incredibly happy. 

It is about the music that changes you, that influences how you act and what you do with your life.

Ben Howard has created such music to me, and I am incredibly thankful for that. 

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