Charley Stone: I’ve Gotta Know
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Charley Stone returns with the primary of three new singles, I’ve Gotta Know, recorded with the Precise Band…
There are few folks the place it’s compulsory to introduce them as ‘The Legendary’… however Charley Stone is one among them. If you happen to’ve not heard the title, disgrace on you, however you’ll have heard her music or seen her on stage. Ms Stone has carried out and recorded with dozens of bands through the years together with Sleeper, Determined Journalist, Artwork Brut, Salad, Homosexual Dad, The Fallen Ladies, and Ye Nuns… in addition to just lately supported the likes of Anna Erhard, Shilpa Ray, The Messthetics, Home of All, The Miki Berenyi Trio and Lande Hekt to call just a few.
It was through the pandemic she began writing the odd tune and launched them by way of Bandcamp, earlier than launching a ‘correct’ solo profession in 2021, the self-released debut album, Right here Comes The Precise Band arriving in 2024.
I’ve Gotta Know, is the primary of three new tracks recorded as stay takes, with the Precise Band (consisting of Charley, Mar Ok aka Kris Smith on bass and Fightmilk’s Lily Rae on drums). Recorded as a stay take, with vocals recorded collectively in the identical room together with guitar, bass and drums, and with simply acoustic guitar and a little bit jazz organ overdubbed afterwards at OneCat Recording Studios in South London.
Clocking in at slightly below 2 and a half minutes, with a jangly, punky sound within the vein of The Go Betweens, it’s a ‘completely crafted indie pop tune’ (Charley advised me to say that) which takes you on a journey by way of the emotional states of a hopeless romantic caught up in a situationship… I’ve Gotta Know has an upbeat simplicity to the melody which belies an anxious craving, brilliantly revealed and explored in an improvised spoken phrase center part, earlier than exploding right into a forthright triple refrain and a wistful, crestfallen coda.
Speaking of the monitor Charley says, ‘At first it was a really quick and easy tune about making an attempt to maintain your cool when somebody you’re actually into begins to indicate curiosity,” says Charley, “however then the center part began evolving into an more and more intense riff on how this may pan out for an individual with an anxious attachment type,’ that stated, she goes onto say, ‘Each time I sing this tune the center part has totally different phrases and is a special size, so there was no possibility however to file the whole lot stay. We put down 3 or 4 totally different variations, and this was the one I made a decision to make use of for the only. However I plan to file an extended, extra intense one for the subsequent album!’
Every of Charley’s single is accomplished with paintings drawn by hand, one thing she says is, ‘a key manifesto level for me when making issues is that I need all of it to be very clearly human-made, with the entire messiness inherent in spontaneous DIY creativity’
There will probably be a headline gig lined up earlier than the tip of the yr and an additional couple of singles earlier than a second studio album is launched in 2026.
Charley may also be taking part in as a part of The Fallen Ladies on the Lexington on twenty eighth December. Tickets accessible right here
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