Ben Howard - Nica Libres At Dusk 

Last year I was extremely sick bedridden for months. In and out of hospitals. I found this song and laying in bed one night It helped me accept the fact that my life was going to come to an early end. It is now almost 2 years later and I'm in my final month of treatment. And hearing this song reminds me of how far I've come since then.❤ what a time to be alive.❤😭

“Now that I’m older I don’t look over my shoulder”. I don’t know why that line always gets to me.

I hope history recognizes this brilliant, and singular talent for what he is; one of the best of his generation

This is one of my favourite songs ever because it really captures the feeling I would like to have one day: just pure stillness and calmness, with all the worries being away. I am so tired, and not simply physically exhausted, just tired of living. I've been working my ass off since college with little pay, trying to improve myself in every way I can. In this time I learned foreign languages, became quite good at my job, got some certificates. Some not so good things happened in that time too, as happen to all of us. The world we live in often simply does not give you space for real healing - there is always another thing that requires your attention, that needs to processed quickly, that weighs you down in some way. I'm currently 28 and my main dream would be to just have a time, even just 3 months, when everything would simply stop. A space and time where I could recover, to "sit and count my dollars" as Ben sings, even though I don't have that much of them. To simply stare at the sea... til my eyes have had enough.

as a BL4KEGRIFFIN school of thought member, i would like to use this platform to worship my king and expose the yahoods around us in our society #dajoos

Meet screenshot man!

Ben is just way ahead of his time. People will listen to this music far in the future and realize what an absolute lyrical visionary he was. I will listen to this until the day I die.

Fairs TheEuropeanLad

The European lad when his team goes 1-0 down

The wait is over, what a day to be alive Mr. Howard...

Where is blud going😭

Who knew European Lad could make insanely good songs 💀💀

God I love this man. His existence is such a blessing

Finally we have found out where the European lad is going 😭😭

This is live footage of Ben walking for 3 years back to us

Ben's music was the soundtrack through my adolescence, my first love and my first heartbreak. The time it's taken Ben to come back with a new album is the same time it's taken me to get over all my emotions holding me back from life. I'm certain Mr Howard's new album will be the soundtrack of a great summer to come and will hold a huge place in my heart forever as his previous records have. Welcome back old friend.

This is the walk we would all be willing to take to watch Ben Howard perform live

First time I saw this it was a strange experience: at the start, you're a bit unsure about it, by the first chorus you're falling in love with it, by the end you're like 'this is his new best song'.

A prime example of REAL music. Ben is a true underdog in the music industry today. This is an acoustic and lyrical masterpiece.

This entire album sounds like Ben is dying...slowly...beautifully...in a odd, yet awakening way.

Bros walking to the Eerste Divisie 😭😭

Welcome back old friend. You’ve been sorely missed.

daily reminder that cfcmod charged 3 dollars a month to talk to him😭😭😭

Ben howard music is where i find peace and comfort in this chaotic world. ♡

Now I am older, I don't look over my shoulder I know what is there in front of me So pertinent when you reach that point in your mid-20s when your life is at a crossroads and you know what you want. Clarity.

TheEuropeanLad !!!

its theeuropeanlad

“Every Kingdom” is an album that inspires to love and live, “ I forget where we where” inspires to think and perceive. I wonder what life lessons Ben prepared for us this time.

There's something so captivating about Ben Howard's voice, I love it

@theEuropeanlad Blud running away 😹

Thank you for making me feel not so lonely in my darkest times We love you Ben Howard ❤

Thank you Ben! Thank you for save me from suicide... just simple thank you...

This is just... I can't find the words to describe this track, I'm just shivering. I went to his concert on 07.04.18 in Italy and I'm still amazed. We covered 1600 km round trip only to see his live performance, and it worth it! I'd do it again a thousand times! Thank You Ben

His music just takes me to another place. A safe place. I feel so happy when I listen to him. He is incredible.

When folks tell me there is no good contemporary music around I point him to Ben.fantastic, beautiful soulful stuff that moves my jaded heart in ways I thought were not possible.

TheEuropeanLad 😭😭 5:25

Hell yes. Being in love with Ben's music makes life such an adventure.. I can hear his old songs in my best memories growing up, and he just keeps giving more and more.

TheEuropeanLad 😭😭

Ben is amazing music. Ben is poetry. Ben is art.

5:27 blud is lost

Thank you Spotify wrapped for reminding me how much of a masterpiece this song is. This man is a genius.

Ben Howard is the best musician ever.

Sometimes when I listen to Ben I feel like I couldn't say anything but wishing him happiness and health... His talent is way beyond my words💕

THEEUROPEANLAD HAHAHAHA

This song hits different dependent on the season. Such a fucking masterpiece.

He’s the only one artist that helps me with my anxiety ❤️ I’m still fighting but he makes it much easier for me I don’t know how but somehow he does 🙌

saw him in Oslo yesterday, lemme tell you - if you have a chance to hear him live - DO IT. Ben was amazing, the band was amazing, stage set-up was amazing. It was a once-in-a-life-time kind of experience.

5:29 TheEuropean Lad

TheEuropeanLad got exposed😭

By far one of the best albums written by Ben......pure gem..

I'm 17 years old and I'm realising that I just got a good taste in music . This song teaches that being alone isn't a problem at allllll

Gotta say TheEuropeanLad has some class music taste

This song honestly just sends you floating away. So chill and really captures the essence of a Noonday dream. Such a magical song and is such a great opener to the album! The video really shows us you enjoying some well deserved time off and I really love its ambiguity. So glad you are back pard I have been dreaming of this for years. Murmurations is also one of the most beautiful songs you've release it really complements the album entirely. I would love to see an acoustic session of A boat as the guitar is just insane. I'm loving you and Mickey flowing off each other, you's are really creating some impressive pieces of music. The strongest part of this album is that it really focusses on the music more than anything else. I wouldn't except anything less from you and the band as this album is complete class served up with beautiful composition.

TheEuropeanLad when Ajax loses a game:

Screenshot man even has a screenshot as his pfp 🤣🤣🤣

PSV is the best club in The Netherlands

One of the best songs ever made!

What an amazing artist, you are. Way wiser than your age. Such depth.

I want to hang out with everyone in this comment section

I was walking the West Highland Way in Scotland in summer 2018 on my own. It was day 5 and I got up early to proceed with the hike. It came to a moment that I was walking through a pine forest near Loch Lomond completely alone. Streams of sunlight fell through the branches of the pines and there was nice smell of early morning mountain dew. The whole trip I did not listen to music because I wanted to listen to the beautiful sound of the birds but for this song I made an exception that day and I listened to this song while walking through this forest and you can guess it: it was a truly magical experience. Thanks Ben Howard for your gift.

7-0. PSV score again. SACK HIM NOW. #SteijnOut

TheEuropeanLad before he screenshotting football matches was his career

Ajax are out of the Europa League😂

I’m amazed how Ben Howard works with atmospheres, his ability of recreating a feeling. This music video is by far my favorite among all the videos I’ve seen on RU-vid because it’s perfection. This song has a very particular light, we can hear the light and feel the atmosphere just by listening to it and the video is completely in the same mood. I’ve been next to where it was shot and it’s exactly how it feels like.

Ben is a genius

TheEuropeanLad got some pipes

ABSOLUTE LEGEND

In the beginning Ben is kicking his heels and wondering how he’s been at the desert for so long. He was left there during End of the Affair. (or during the ovbious burnout he had last tour.) We all know how much Ben loves water, so the desert could be metaphor for a place which he doesn’t enjoy. He doesnt really look happy down there. After the day is done, he is thirsty and hallucinating from the heat. He climbs up the long way up and finally finds an oasis (water!) but it may very well be just a mirage, who knows? This video is an ambiguous masterpiece, a short film. This is why I love this guy.

Scenes when TheEuropeanLad reports on Gibraltar beating the Netherlands 😭

You truly are a British National Treasure and your album is the reason I started surfing in Cornwall.

I'M SO GLAD BEN IS BACK 💖

Ben's music has so many layers. Its a feast to the senses. Such a musical master.

Thanks Ben and every musician who helped making this new album.

No screenshot?

3 years on and this song still gets me right in the feels

Anyone else feel and see the passion some of us have for Ben's music? I always think like, God what if we all got together and unite in some sort of way lol. Perhaps for some good humane cause in carrying his music with us ha. Anyways call me loco, peace n love to all that feel the depth of this music. I absolutely love it especially this song. Gnite

Oh, I have been waiting for this moment. You create art, not just songs. Thank you for blessing my ears and eyes.

where is europeanlad going 😭😭

This is an absolute masterpiece by in my opinion one of the most important minds in music, period. Ben Howard and Justin Vernon for me create art that comes from a different planet/dimension all together unlike anything I think any of us will see again in our life times. Absolutely surreal, yet again!

a hot summer night as the stars blink ahead, driving on a quiet, yellow-lit highway back into the city with your best friend in the passenger side laughing with you as this song plays. soon, we will all find that vibe.

To me this symbolises ground hog day, repetition, same environments and the same mind-sets. The longer he walks that road the more he wants change. Eventually through determination, hardship and pushing on, he reaches the destination. He can finally appreciate what he has, relax, whilst also being grateful for the past as it showed him the way. This is the beauty of existence, if you understand life is a journey of lessons. I love Ben as an artist as he leaves the door open for interpretation and always manages to get an emotional reaction.

Finally!!! This video represents how it feels to be without Ben Howard music and then finally hearing a new song.

8-0 PSV ITS OVER!!!AJAX ARE GETTING RELEGATED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Of any big sports accounts on twitter, 5:28 is the most unexpected profile picture of all time

Absolutely perfect like always

No words. First time I heard it, I was so there. Loved! Music is such an etheeal healing! ☮ The Soul connections..spot om's! ! The universe We are all connected. The power of pure love 💖 It's all here Love & Light ! 🕉☯️🕯🌠

Listening to Ben howard live lounge stuff for 40 mins thinking about his new album, accidentally searched this, 15 mins ago, times it right... Can't wait!

As much as we all associate Ben with the ocean/water and the beach/surfing, the desert is perfect for this music. The desert holds so many secrets.

5:29 European lad lol

I’ve got something to say.. This album came out whilst I was holidaying around Cornwall for 2weeks.. perfect timing i thought. I admit to feeling a tad underwhelmed after that 1st listen.. I was just getting used to another of my favourite artists- Bon Ivers new bleepy blobby direction & it seemed to me Ben was searching for his own unique sound. But after 35yrs of listening to all kinds of music I always like to see an artist progress, to push him/herself- that’s why as a Manchester lad I can never forgive Oasis for after Morning Glory churning out the same old pap album after album- but I digress. So I lived with Noonday Dream, luckily I have a 50mile commute each working day & before I knew it I hadn’t changed the cd in the car for 2 months. It’s an astounding album, my favourite album of the last decade. I’m writing this his after just stripping the front room wallpaper & Nica Libres came on my Spotify randomly & a thought occurred to me... I loved Every Kingdom & then Bens 2nd album came out & I loved that twice as much as every kingdom & after living with Noonday I love that album twice as much as I Forget Where We Where- which I thought would be absolutely impossible but there you go. Now Bens got a lot to live up to for whenever he releases a fourth album but I’ve no doubt he’ll be up to the challenge. Sorry for the novel but if you’re one of those who preferred bens first two albums & never gave Noonday a chance then please reconsider, live with it as I did cos you’re missing out big time xx

Absolutely fantastic, a masterpiece, Not heard the entire album yet but so far this is by far my favourite song of the year. It's subliminal and Nat wasons guitar soars on this song.

Ben Howard changed my life

I know this is mad random but i think this is the first time I've seen Ben Howard walk lol

We weren't in the MLS at 35

Theeuropeanlad 😭😭

Couldn't find the lyrics in the comments,so I'm posting them :)) Door is locked My gums are bleeding Outside she reads Outside she's reading The evacuation procedure out loud Clothes are off My health receding Somewhere she dreams Somewhere she's dreaming The Caribbean Nica Libres at dusk While the faithful dispose of a generation And all of the mountains whisper knowingly I order a Colada And sit, count my dollars And watch eagles soar in circles Perpetually Door is locked My gums are bleeding Outside she reads Outside she's reading The evacuation procedure out loud Clothes are off My health receding Somewhere she dreams Somewhere she's dreaming The Caribbean Nica Libres at dusk While the faithful dispose of a generation And all of the mountains rumble knowingly I order a Colada And sit, count my dollars And watch eagles soar in circles Perpetually Forever, forever such a beautiful thing Now I'm older The knock over my shoulder I know what is there in front of me Ten Marlboro cigarettes The rolled butts into the bottle tops Today I will stand at the sea Turn my eyes in front of me Now, is there a now?

This album is really a masterpiece. Ben is on another level compares to other artists today

Thank you Ben, for just being you. Your not trying to be something your not. Even though your famous now, you stay humble, grounded and Real. Much 💜 & Respect....blessyourheartmydear.

anyone else weirded out that he's as out of his element in this MV as possible? when I think of Ben, he's always by the water. I'm so excited for the album!

AJAX FINISHED CLUB 😭😭😭