Martin Carr – visionary songwriter, guitarist, filmmaker, graphic artist, and creative force behind The Boo Radleys and bravecaptain – has shared his groundbreakingly unconventional new single, “Connie Converse Is Playing At My House,” available today exclusively via the Cardiff-based artist’s own Sonny Boy Records. A self-directed and animated official music video premieres today at YouTube. “Connie Converse Is Playing At My House” marks the first release from What Future, an all-new solo album of distracted beats and messy electronics arriving later this year.
“A couple of years ago I listened to a true crime podcast about a little known singer-songwriter who had home-recorded her own wildly original music in the late 1950s and had then gone missing in the 1970s,” says Martin Carr. “That was the first time I had heard the name Connie Converse and within a week I had listened to her songs a thousand times. I really connected to her personal and self-effacing lyrics, there is a yearning in her songs that I recognize in my own. I had to find out everything I could about her, which led me to Howard Fishman’s excellent book, To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse. My obsession peaked when I had a dream that she was playing in my kitchen, making beautiful and strange noises on a huge old Moog synth.”
‘What Future’ follows last year’s release of The Canton Hours, a collection of original odds and sods recorded in the wake of Carr’s critically acclaimed third solo album, 2017’s New Shapes of Life. “A suave, sophisticated, rhythmically robust pop record whose swagger belies deep-seated feelings of disillusionment, self-doubt, and paranoia,” declared Pitchfork of the latter LP. “As he did with the Boos, Carr never lets his experimentation overwhelm or topple his song structures; he’s more interested in seeing what he can get away with in the confines of a four-minute tune.” “Very possibly the best thing he has ever released,” wrote CLASH in a 9/10 rave. “The beginning of a new era for Martin Carr, an artist in rare form.” “His finest work since The Boo Radleys,” wrote Record Collector. “It’s not so much painfully honest as powerfully real.”
SOURCE: Official Bio
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