ALBUM REVIEW: Ben Le Jeune – A Stranger To Your City

Missing Door

25.04.25

Former The Creature Comfort frontman Ben Le Jeune’s highly anticipated debut album is ten tracks of timeless mid-Atlantic rock and roll escapism. On first listen you may be mistaken for thinking that this is a record mired in fuzz and reverb for fans of the likes of The Velvet Underground and White Lies. Love You In The Morning takes its cues from Nick Cave’s dark and dramatic romanticism, while Formentera and All Is Better On A Friday are more upbeat and optimistic, even if the Friday metaphor is a little tired. And that is A Stranger To Your City’s principle problem: so keen to celebrate its influences it forgets to stamp any influence of its own.