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<\/a><\/p>\nIt was the week that British star Ben Howard released his rather long-awaited second album I Forget Where We Were<\/em>. His UK tour has sold out and he’s well on the way to doing the same with his American line-up. So grabbing the main man on his promo tour, we found out more about his fresh serve.<\/p>\n Since Every Kingdom<\/em> was released in 2011, the sound of Ben Howard has been inescapable with ‘Keep Your Head Up’ and ‘Only Love’ receiving major radio-play and massive hype online.\u00a0Awards followed this initial success with a 2012 Mercury Prize nomination and two wins at the 2013 Brit Awards, and rightly so. But whilst there has been a gap between his releases, we can confirm he hadn’t been lazing about, but producing his EP The Burgh Island<\/em>. “I think the EP was nice to play something a little different”, says Ben in his soft-spoken English drawl. “The songs were nice to work on because it didn\u2019t feel like I was working on an album.”\u00a0The EP, however, did give fans a chance to hear where Howard was moving, a taster of his new sound that he’d been developing.<\/p>\n “It felt like it was just where we were going with stuff with the other guys we were playing with, just to try something more encompassing. It\u2019s very much a band project,” Ben continues.\u00a0Following a two-year hiatus, on a warm August evening the Internet was treated to a dramatic track release without any prior notice. At eight minutes long with a moody build up, ‘End of The Affair’ is not one for the radio. A risky strategy perhaps, but one that leaves you with no doubt that the Ben Howard sound of 2014 is a far more significant one.<\/p>\n