I'm a fan (and you should be too) because...Howie's music draws you in. As you continue to listen to Howie's music you feel yourself being pulled in closer and closer until you are completely hooked - and I am. I think part of the draw is that the music feels so honest. You feel as if your are listening to something emotionally private - be it a frustrated venting of pent up emotion, that I feel in Be There, or the pain and relief that comes when you realize that you can't force a relationship to work, which is what I feel when I listen to No Longer What You Require, or the feeling of longing, not wanting something to end, which is what I feel in Longest Night. I think it is the dichotemy of emotion that draws me in. It feels so relatable, truthful, how things really are - not so black and white. It is the strength and vunerablilty, the pain and relief, the self-assuredness and doubt that makes it so real. Howie is truly brilliant.