Velocity

As the singer-songwriter in I Am Kloot from 1999 to 2014, John Bramwell achieved a Mercury Prize nomination for 2010?s The Sky At Night, a Top 10 chart position for 2013?s Let It All In, numerous UK and European tours and a triumphant farewell at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with an orchestra in 2014. Now, as a solo artist, he?s travelling a very different path, his stunning new album The Light Fantastic is almost a complete U-turn from his Kloot-days. Darker clouds have been banished, there are now strings and four-part harmonies and a dozen gloriously exhilarating, beautifully crafted observed songs about life, humanity, the universe and everything else. ?A unique both literally and metaphorically? ? Lauren Laverne ?My favourite songwriter of all time? ? Cate Blanchett [who chose Bramwell-penned ?Proof? as her Desert Island Disk on the BBC Radio 4 show] ?The UK?s finest export? New York Times ?Bramwell?s new songs are spellbinding? The Guardian