As the singer-songwriter in I Am Kloot from 1999 to 2014, John Bramwell achieved a Mercury Prize nomination for 2010's The Sky At Night, a Top 10 chart position for 2013's Let It All In, numerous UK and European tours and a triumphant farewell at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with an orchestra in 2014. Now, as a solo artist, he's travelling a very different path, his stunning new album The Light Fantastic is almost a complete U-turn from his Kloot-days. Darker clouds have been banished, there are now strings and four-part harmonies and a dozen gloriously exhilarating, beautifully crafted observed songs about life, humanity, the universe and everything else. A unique both literally and metaphorically Lauren Laverne My favourite songwriter of all time Cate Blanchett [who chose Bramwell-penned Proof as her Desert Island Disk on the BBC Radio 4 show] The UK's finest export New York Times Bramwell's new songs are spellbinding The Guardian