Alejandro Carantoña is a Spanish journalist. He wrote a neat review of the “Wilson’s Reservoir” LP.

Deciding to compose, sing and create Folk nowadays might be due to two reasons: first, conviction; second, opportunism. Ben Wilson belongs to the first group, the ones that have drunk from old days acoustic guitars, overlapped with –his own story to tell- and finally has sprinkled his rare talent over them.

Wilson’s Reservoir introduces an extremely risky record, close to tightrope walking: it constantly swings from conventional to that kind of profound music that makes you shut down all your senses while listening.

Weird things happen in every track, brass blowing, drums, pedal steels, overdriven bass, surrounding Wilson’s voices and his nuances-plated 6 strings. We stride along with him, hand by hand, through every song, wherever he wants to take us. And at the same time, we reach without realizing, the heart of his melodies: from the guy sitting at the edge of his bed, notebook over his lap, to the grandeur of a perfectly rhythmic band bursting onto the room.

- Alejandro Carantoña.