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Martin Carr, the former guitarist and songwriter in ’90s shoegaze/Britpop greats The Boo Radleys, has announced a new album, What Future, which will be out later this year via his own Sonny Boy Records.
Full details of the album haven’t been revealed yet, but Carr has shared a song from it, “Connie Converse is Playing at My House,” which pays tribute to the ’50s singer-songwriter cult hero while tipping a hat to LCD Soundsystem.
“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 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 recognise 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.”
You can watch the video, which Martin also made, below.
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