Benjamin Clementine: I Tell a Fly review – the difficult second album

The Mercury-winner has swerved the mainstream and made an avant garde concept album about Aleppo, the refugee crisis and two flies in love
Earlier this year, Benjamin Clementine told the Observer about the difficult process of submitting his second album to his record label. Things became so fraught, he said, that he threatened to return from whence he came: the Paris Metro, where he was discovered as a homeless busker. “I said to them: ‘Listen, if you want me to do what you want, th