For her second album “five seconds flat”, songwriter Lizzy McAlpine went to great lengths to peel off the indie folk recognition of her debut from two years back. NBHAP editor Andreas zoomed up the rising pop phenomenon to chat about growing out of folk music, our ever-lasting urge to start anew and how the record reflects her matured state of mind.
Despite all popular belief, the idea of folk music is still very much alive, constantly reimagined and shaped anew by artists from every corner of the globe. In this ongoing column we’d like to peek behind the curtains of the heritage of a genre. This time NBHAP author Andreas takes a deeper dive into the fourth record of neo-folk mastermind Ben Howard and kindly invites you to follow him around.