First official solo album for Benjamin Thomas Holton, from Staffordshire, UK, also member of epic45 and occasional collaborator of Antohny Harding (July Skies).
"The Village Compass" is a collection of intimate indie folk pastoral songwriting, recorded between 2005 and 2008, under the obvious influence of artists such as Hood, Empress, Appendix Out or Movietone, all of them have probably haunted his adolescence, but turned here into a more direct, à fleur de peau, personal & solo expression, which you could also link to works of recent artists such as Talons' or Vio/Miré, as all of them combine stripped-back folk songs, with sparse electronics and field recordings.
