Album Review/Preview: Keaton Henson – Dear…/Birthdays (Motive Sounds; 2010/13)

BY DARREN McCULLINS One of music’s great challenges is to create an album that on the surface can be perceived as wry and low key, and yet contain optimum power.  Yet, somehow, the reluctant Keaton Henson has done it. If ever a work can be described as an enigma, his debut album Dear.. is it.