Mr Hudson & The Library

This UK band's distinctive name marked them out as an act to investigate following their appearance on the music scene in 2006. ‘Mr Hudson' is Ben, whose roots are in the rhythm section but who fronts the band with his conversational melodies. Hudson's growing frustration with guitar music led him to hip-hop, where the influence of Jay-Z and the Roots took hold, expressed through an often romantic Englishness in the lyrical content that goes some way to defining the band's sound. Hudson's Library inadvertently represent a wide spectrum of English backgrounds to rubberstamp his...