Photo: Aisha Latosski
Info: "Hi, my name is Ben and I have made a new album called 'Megadead'. I've done a few albums over the years, this one being the 7th full one, I think. I've been pretty proud of them all but I reckon I peaked somewhere around 2012 (didn't we all). Luckily for me, it was exactly around the time I also peaked in shame and anxiety about doing any kind of art at all. Especially music...A white male singer-songwriter going under his own name? yikes.
So what's changed? I'm still doing this shit as I hurtle through my 30's. Goodbye pension, goodbye family, goodbye career. What’s your point, Ben?
The truth is, making up stupid songs and recording them in my bedroom is the only thing that gets me through each day. Going to my shitty job is rubbish. Sitting with a keyboard and a laptop on my bed and losing hours to music is magical.
I'm yet to produce anything that hasn't involved my usual tropes of 'i hate my job!’ and ‘let's run away!’ but my other half said this album is more honest than previous efforts. More open. I dunno, but I’m going to do more. Be it under my own douchebag-singer-songwriter name or something else. It’s embarrassing, but I’ve got nothing else to do." - Benjamin Shaw
Taken from Shaw's Bandcamp page, the above is better than any descriptor. Benjamin Shaw is a Canadian now living in Melbourne, Australia who has previously been described by CLASH Music as a "freak", and "pop's outsider" by The 405. I've enjoyed the refreshing nature of Megadead, and you should too.
Key tracks: "All Body Start Feeling Down", "This is Stupid", "A Brand New Day", "hole"
FFO: Four Tet, Public Service Broadcasting, Joy Zipper, Gold Panda (in snippets).
https://bnjmnshw.wordpress.com/
https://bnjmnshw.bandcamp.com/
