Tim Van Berkestijn News Today

On his new album, Young Hearts, Benny Sings teamed up with the ever-prolific and highly regarded producer Kenny Beats

Bandcamp / Buy The Dutch songwriter Benny Sings whittles his chipper songs down to their foundations. “I’m not a very adventurous music maker,” he told an interviewer a couple years ago. “If the chords work,” he added, “what do you need more than just a kick and a bass and a vocal?” Benny, whose real name is Tim van Berkestijn, has made a study and a production line out of that approach. In his hands the album format is pure vessel: Here’s a song. H...