Ben Ottewell

Benjamin Joseph Ottewell (an haife shi a ranar 23 ga watan Yunin shekara ta 1976) mawaƙi ne kuma marubucin waƙoƙi na Ingila. Yana daya daga cikin manyan mawaƙa uku na ƙungiyar indie rock ta Ingila Gomez . Ya kasance mai karɓar lambar yabo ta Mercury Music Award a shekarar 1998, kuma an san shi sosai da "mai zurfi, murya mai zurfi" da kuma "baritone mai zurfi". A cikin 2011, Ottewell ya fara aikin solo, tare da kundi na farko Shapes & Shadows .

Ayyuka

 sadu da Ian Ball (murya, guitar) yayin da su biyun ke karatun shari'a a Jami'ar Sheffield. Ball ya burge da babbar muryar Ben, kuma tare da Tom Gray (murya, guitar, keyboard), Paul Blackburn (bass), da Olly Peacock (drums, synths, kwamfutoci), sun kafa ƙungiyar Gomez. Muryar Ottewell mai zurfi, mai zurfi ta sami masa yabo kuma ya jawo wasu kwatance-kwatance da Eddie Vedder na Pearl Jam da mai zane Tom Waits, da salon waƙarsa, da shirye-shiryen sauti, musamman a cikin aikinsa na solo, sun jawo kwatance ga mawaƙin gargajiya Nick Drake.

Siffofi da Inuwa

Kundin solo  farko na Ben Ottewell, Shapes & Shadows, ba babban tashi ba ne daga kayan sa tare da Gomez, amma yana da bambance-bambance. Ya fi ƙanƙanta, baƙin ciki, da kuma motsa sauti fiye da Gomez. Wani mai sukar kiɗa ya ce "a cikin waƙoƙi da jigogi, Shapes and Shadows (kundin) rikodin mai tunani ne kuma mai girma, kamar dai Ottewell yana ɗaukar batutuwan soyayya da dangantaka da aka tattauna a cikin kundin baya na Gomez zuwa wani, matakin da ya fi girma".