We love the idosyncratic, perverse folk ramblings of Benjamin Shaw and his arsenic laced pathos. It is truly a unique delight.

The Birds Chirp & The Sun Shines is the second single from his excellent debut album There’s Always Hope, There’s Always Cabernet.

The song is perhaps one of the sonically lighter moments on the record but sees him threatening to “track him down, make him yell and make him weep…smash his pretty head”, lamenting that he “never wanted to stare into the abyss, Celebrate Good Times, Come On!” and asking that some charitable soul “fill my mouth with idiots and throw me in the lake”.

We have the B-Side for you to take away and get to know like an intimate friend. Kick the Dog is described as Neil Young & Crazy Horse with casio and drum machine (though not quite Trans), with a slow guitar dirge lifting his suggestion that “to be a diamond is not so hard in a sea of shit” up into the Blackpool lights. Quite.

Buy some of his music here because we need more folk like Benjamin Shaw. In a better world this chap would be a national treasure.

While you’re about it, watch his video for How To Test The Depth Of A Well from his recent Line Of Best Fit session.

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Download Benjamin Shaw – Kick The Dog mp3 (from The Birds Chirp And The Sun Shines Single)

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