"This debut EP offers a taste of one of 2014's most promising new talents. With just Benjamin Clementine's impulsive piano figures accompanying his dark, powerful voice, there's a soulful solemnity about these searching songs. But there's also a wealth of imagination at work: 'It's a wonderful life, traversed in tears from the heavens,' he observes in 'I Won't Complain', surveying the emotional turmoil that renders his heart a 'melodrama in fact'; while over flurries of piano, his urgent delivery of 'Cornerstone' blends the sensitivity of Antony Hegarty with the wracked passion of Nina Simone, admitting loneliness as his 'home, home, home', but biting off the word to sound like 'hope'. A distinctive and impressive new voice."