hinging on the themes of love & death, songwriter benedict rubinstein explores the relationships between these experiences & how both can distort logic.

the mariner’s children include members of peggy sue, laura marling, sons of noel & adrian, alessi’s ark, & eyes & no eyes. drawing inspiration from chris taylor (grizzly bear)’s approach to production, angels of light, & pentangle amongst others, their music has, at the same time, all the immense instrumentation of arcade fire & the subtlety of the likes of iron & wine & bonnie ‘prince’ billy.