Folk Bands and Artists
Benji Tranter
https://soundcloud.com/benji-tranter
After a recording hiatus of over five years, Welsh singer and songwriter Benji Tranter returns with his debut album Songs to Make You Happy, out in January 2022. With a lo-fi, DIY ethos, unembellished guitars and vocals deliver a charming, sometimes chaotic, collection of vignettes; diary entries, polaroid snapshots, throwaway poems and short stories. Benji is releasing his first single “Satellite” on the 25th November, a pop banger about friendship, love and togetherness, even if your only pal is a satellite way up in the sky.
The influence of US songwriters like Elliott Smith, Conor Oberst and Daniel Johnston are clear throughout, with occasional elements from Scott Walker, Nick Drake, and the care-free naivety of Jonathan Richman.
Growing up on the Welsh Marches, Benji has been song writing for many years now, penning two EPs in 2014 and 2016, more recently focussing his efforts toward his power-pop group Ski Lift who have been featured across R1, BBC6 and BBC Wales. He has also collaborated with Jovis Lane in pop outfit Show Boy, and is currently a member of psych-folk group The All Night Chemist.
