Keaton Henson – Monument (2LP) – White Vinyl

Album Info Hide Show Artist: Keaton Henson Album: Monument Released: Europe, 2020 Tracklist: A1 Ambulance A2 Self Portrait A3 Ontario B1 Career Day B2 Prayer C1 While I Can C2 Bed C3 The Grand Old Reason D1 Husk D2 Thesis D3 Bygones Info About Buying Vinyl From Our Record Store We are a small independent record store located at 211 High St, Preston in Melbourne, Australia (North of Northcote, between Thornbury & Reservoir) We buy and sell new and used vinyl records – if you have a collection you’d like to sell please click here . We ship Australia wide for a flat rate of $10 for standard shipping or $15 for express post. Free Shipping for orders $150 and over. You can also pick up your order in store, just select Local Pickup at the checkout. We also ship internationally – prices vary depending on weight and location. We ship vinyls in thick, rigid carboard mailers with a crushable zone on either side, and for extra safety we bubble wrap the records. 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You can contact our Melbourne record shop at (03) 9939 3807 or at [email protected] Happy Listening! Description Hide Show Keaton Hensons Monument arrived on 23 October 2020 through Play It Again Sam, and it carries the unmistakable weight of a goodbye. He wrote it in the wake of losing his father, the actor Nicky Henson, who died in 2019, and you can hear the record working through that grief in real time. Henson has always lived in the quiet corners of a song, but here the quiet feels devotional. The piano creaks, the strings hover like breath, and his voice sits so close it almost startles you when it cracks. You can trace the albums path through its singles. Ontario drifts in on a gentle pulse and a melody that feels like its been sitting in your chest for years. Its not a grand statement. Its a small room, a winter window, a name on a map that suddenly means everything. Career Day is plainer, almost diaristic, but thats the trick. Hensons plain speech cuts deeper than any flourish. Prayer sits near the center like a candle. He doesnt try to solve anything. He just sits with the ache and lets the harmonies swell and recede until the room feels different. These songs dont push for catharsis so much as they wait for it, and somehow that patience becomes the point. The sound of Monument is all lived-in details. Close-miked piano that seems to carry the dust of the keys. Strings that arrive in thin ribbons, not big cinematic waves. Acoustic guitar that peeks out to answer a line and then disappears. You get the sense parts were recorded at odd hours, when the house was quiet enough to catch the click of a pedal or the scrape of a chair. Henson has a long track record of making intimate recordings that feel handmade, and this one leans into that craft with real intent. Nothing is rushed. Even the silences feel edited with care. Theres a tenderness to how he writes about memory here. He doesnt mythologize his father. He notices the way a voice lingers in a room, the way a joke lands a beat late now, the way ordinary rituals become monuments once someone is gone. The title fits. These songs arent stone statues. Theyre smaller markers that you pass each day and nod to because you know what they mean. When a string line swells, its never to knock you over. Its more like a hand on your shoulder reminding you to breathe. If youre crate-digging for Keaton Henson vinyl, Monument is the one you hold up to the light and think, Im taking this home. The album has that late-night pull that suits a turntable and a quiet room. Its not flashy. It doesnt need to be. Hensons voice, barely above a whisper, turns the simplest phrase into a confession. Fans who discovered him through Dear or Birthdays will hear the same fragile honesty, but with the perspective of someone who has sat with loss long enough to speak about it softly. Monument vinyl has become a quiet favorite in shops for exactly that reason. Its the record staff put on when the store is almost empty and the lights are warm. The record also landed with a gentle swell of respect from across the aisle of listeners who dont always meet in the same section. Folk fans love its unvarnished feel. Modern classical and ambient listeners hear the restraint and the way the strings shade the edges rather than fill the center. Even singer-songwriter skeptics tend to stop and listen to Prayer when it comes on and ask what it is. It makes sense. Hensons writing is built on detail, not drama, and detail travels. If youre looking to buy Keaton Henson records online, this album is an easy recommendation, and it sits nicely alongside other Keaton Henson albums on vinyl for a complete picture of how hes grown. Ive seen Monument tucked into endcaps at a Melbourne record store next to Nick Drake and Sufjan Stevens, which feels right. Its an album you trust to carry a room without raising its voice, the kind that makes you want to keep a small ritual around it. Flip it on a rainy night. Let the needles of the strings and the hush of the piano build a little shelter. For anyone building a thoughtful shelf of vinyl records Australia wide or anywhere else, this belongs within reach. Product Reviews Hide Show Write a Review