Ben Howard - Collections From the Whiteout (Album Review) Tuesday, 06 April 2021 Written by Graeme Marsh ‘Collections From the Whiteout’, the fourth album from Ben Howard, represents the first time he’s taken a leap of faith with an outside producer. Aaron Dessner, of the National and recent headline-grabbing work with Taylor Swift, is the man given full access, bringing a fresh perspective that results in an album unlike any of Howard’s other work. Here the Devon songwriter pulls inspiration from personal observations and odd stories springing up from news headlines, with the bubbly synths of opener Follies Fixture providing the backdrop for an immediate curveball. Finders Keepers, an eerie tale based around a friend of Howard’s father finding a body in a suitcase, is weirder still.