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Benjamin Stewart

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Slowly Slowly frontman Benjamin Stewart knows what people will be expecting from his debut solo album, Pushing Daylight – just another emo-punk rock guy doing what he always does, only with an acoustic guitar instead of an electric.

Pushing Daylight is not that record.

Sure, acoustic guitar is a key component of the album, and fans of Slowly Slowly will find Stewart’s voice and the music’s emotional richness reassuringly familiar. Rather than the main course, however, these are just ingredients in a kaleidoscopic journey through myriad moods, emotions and textures, composed without concern for commercial expectations, single edits or video treatments.

Make no mistake, though – this is very much the unfiltered sound and spirit of Benjamin Stewart, an artist laying himself completely bare. “It’s my favourite thing I’ve ever made,” he smiles. “It has such a softness to it but then an evil underbelly if you dig a bit deeper, and it’s kind of dense but at the same time kind of sparse. I just love it so much.”

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