The nationwide release of
'Roughs' by former and
founding member of the Los
Angeles rock band Sugarcult,
now available on Velvet Crush and
Matthew Sweet drummer Ric
Menck's Bird Song imprint.
Ben's doing his very own laidback
soft-rock thing, with a
dab of country & western, quite
a departure from Sugarcult's
highly-touted tautness.
Leaving behind a life of rock-nroll
excess, this enigmatic
album qualifies both as
emancipation and exorcism, a
collection of intimate, personal
songs about love, longing,
loathing and self-destruction.
Likened to singer-songwriterly,
orch-popping artists like Ken
Stringfellow and The Posies,
Kevin Tihista’s Red Terror,
Pete Yorn and Velvet Crush.