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Charlie Clark has a fascinating story to tell – a part of vital Scottish indie music history in indie band Astrid before decamping to lead another life in LA as a music producer and artistic entrepreneur. A few years back he returned to his native shores for personal reasons, and ended up with twins, his …

Thundering waves of guitar and a bright infectious bounce herald the sparkling new single from Charlie Clark, ahead of the much delayed release of his solo album ‘Late Night Drinking’ and a UK tour. Clarke has been winking his musical eye at us in a lascivious manner for the past 18 months with a delicious …

Charlie Clark has been lasciviously fluttering his eyelashes at us ahead of his debut album release with a stream of jangly anthemic indie pop gems over the last year (see my reviews for the magnificent tracks ‘Don’t Have A Cow‘, ‘Late Night Drinking‘, ‘No Big Deal‘ and ‘A Bridge To Your Idol‘). While the album …

Like some glorious love child of Velvet Underground and The Jesus and Mary Chain, and best buddies with Courtney Barnett, Clarke and the Himself‘s debut single ‘Weighted Down’ has a fuzzy deceptively simple sweet drone attack: sibilant cymbals, grunge guitars and the sweetest repeated melody backed by a plonking piano. All the remarkable for the …

Glaswegian Charlie Clark is building up a magnificent body of work in anticipation of his newly announced album ‘Late Night Drinking’, accompanied by the release of the title track. We’ve already swooned with admiration for his previously released tracks ‘Don’t Have A Cow‘, ‘A Bridge To Your Idol‘ and ‘No Big Deal‘, and the new …