Bristol indie-folk songwriter Myer U Clark has announced new album Tinderbox, due 26th June via Broadside Hacks Recordings. To mark the announcement, he shares his new single Healers today alongside an accompanying music video.
Produced at The Crypt by Jack Ogborne (The New Eves, Bingo Fury, The Cindys), Healers is built on Clark’s wiry guitar idiosyncrasies and a shambling, loose-limbed performance style he calls “musical jank.” It has the feel of a lost Harold and Maude set piece — whimsical and carefree, capturing the open-armed headiness that stretches across Tinderbox. There are echoes of The Go-Betweens and Aztec Camera in the homespun melodic sense, filtered through a studied interest in English folk and Delta blues.
“Healers is a love song describing a back and forth that isn’t going anywhere but both people suspect they could be right on the edge of something special,” Clark says. “There’s a thread throughout, that the two act as a kind of medicine for one another.”
The video was produced with the support of Bristol multimedia collective Below The Belt, with Sam Sterland directing, Louis Cooper editing and Ruby Sinclair producing.
Tinderbox is Clark’s first release with Broadside Hacks Recordings, the label behind recent albums from Sam Grassie, Milkweed and the forthcoming debut from Brown Wimpenny. Clark caught the songwriting bug at the age of eight, hosting his first gigs to his Jack Russell, Albie, from an idle Devonshire valley village, and later chose an English Literature degree specifically to sharpen his lyrics. A member of art-rock quartet The Scuttlers, he is fresh from tour dates with Naima Bock and Sorry and has shared bills with Truthpaste, The Slow Country and Morn — placing him firmly on indie stages rather than folk club circuits.
Pre-Order via Bandcamp: https://myeruclark1.bandcamp.com/album/tinderbox
Live Dates
21 APR — London, Morocco Bound Bookshop
27 JUN — London, Next Door Records 2
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