Sundress

Trust me #117Sundress by Ben KwellerI've spent considerable time revisiting the sunshine, open road, warm breeze guitar pop of Ben Kweller over the last month. Kweller had a magnificent run of 00's albums; his debut Sha Sha (2002), On My Way (2004), Ben Kweller (2006) and Changing Horses (2009). There was a large gap between 2012's Go Fly A Kite and 2021's Circuit Boredom, but Kweller seems to have the bug again, releasing Cover the Mirrors (including collaborations with Waxahatchee and The Flaming Lips) in 2025. Kweller recently played King Tuts on 10th June, his first Scottish show in a decade and it was an absolute joy. Ben hinted that he will be back in 2027, so maybe another album is on the way - he'll need a bigger venue! Tuts was absolutely rammed. I left wanting to get my guitars down from the loft, plug in my amp and play. Kweller played songs from across his career, beginning with two of my absolute favourites - Thirteen and Falling, with the latter generating a huge…