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Singer, songwriter, DJ and producer Ben Westbeech presents ‘There’s More To Life Than This’ - a soulful, house music-inspired summer gem. Having first made his mark back in 2006, Ben was then signed by Gilles Peterson to his fledgling Brownswood Recordings label. His 2007 debut album, ‘Welcome To The Best Years Of Your Life’, received a glowing reception - however, its success also brought expectation and growing anxieties and following its release Ben spent several months uninspired and directionless, lost in musical limbo... Later, illustrious house label Strictly Rhythm approached Ben and suggested he record for them. Inspired by the fresh challenge, he started work on what would become ‘There’s More To Life Than This’. Recordings took place in Berlin, New York, London, Bristol, Munich, Stockholm and Stuttgart over the past 12 months, and saw Ben team up with an impressive roll-call of collaborators, including; Motor City Drum Ensemble, Redlight, Georg Levin, Chocolate Puma, Midland, Soul Clap and Henrik Schwarz. The resulting record marries finely honed songwriting with the energy and spark of house for a cultured yet fresh album. Opening chapter ‘The Book’ is followed by uplifting, disco-fuelled, weekend-starting anthem, ‘Something For The Weekend’. Other highlights include the darker ‘Falling’, which, accompanied by remixes from The 2 Bears, Deetron and Dark Sky, was an earlier single. Ben displays a social conscious on both ‘Same Thing’ and ‘Justice’, and takes things deeper still for the Detroit-tinged, pulsing and biographical, ‘Stronger’. ‘Sugar’ and ‘Let Your Feelings Go’ are bittersweet love songs and the sun sets with the gentle, understated, yet powerfully affecting ‘Summer’s Loss’. And he's a mean bowler too...