Ben Le Jeune A Stranger To Your City

Restless troubadour and mercurial Anglo-Belgian frontman Ben Le Jeune unveils his highly anticipated debut solo album “A Stranger To Your City”: a journey into his personal night and an exploration of darkness as a source of redemption.The 10-track collection was produced by Tim Thomas (One Direction, Elbow, Johnny Marr, The Fall), and is the first material to appear since Ben's move from Manchester to France.A captivating singer, musician and poet, Ben’s lyrics are imbued with a dark and dramatic romanticism and recount stories of love and a world gone wrong. If Ben Le Jeune is rightfully associated with The Creature Comfort, a cult underground fixture of the Manchester scene in the late 80’s / 90’s where he was the singer and frontman, it is through this solo project that he has found a more mature and introspective path, allowing him to fulfill his deep-seated need for greater poetic truth.From the opener and first single ‘Steal You Away’, with its buzzsaw guitars and pounding drums where bluesy declamations of virility are twisted into something far more vulnerable, via the swagger of ‘Je suis le président’ (one of the album’s two tracks sung in French), through to the timeless stone-cold classic songwriting of ‘Formentera’ and the gorgeous melancholia of ‘Baby Where Are You Today’, the album owes as much to The Temptations and Amy Winehouse as it does to The Stooges, Lee Hazlewood and the Rolling Stones.‘a Stranger To Your City’ was recorded and mixed between 2022 and 2024 at the legendary Blueprint Studios in Manchester, with Ben travelling back and forth from continental Europe.Each song on the album has its own sonic identity in the way that it is mixed and reflects the variety in songwriting styles, all unified by Ben’s singular voice into a coherent, organic and assured body of work.For fans of: Nick Cave, Joy Division, Arctic Monkeys, Fontaines DC, Iggy Pop, Tindersticks, Pixies, Idles, Pete Doherty, Leonard Cohen.