Myer U Clark - Tinderbox - 1LP

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Marking the announcement of new album ‘Tinderbox’- due 26th June - and his first underground folk champions Broadside Hacks Recordings (Sam Grassie, Milkweed), Bristol indie/folk songwriter shares new single ‘Healers’, out today (14th April). Combining wiry guitar idiosyncrasies with playful lyricism,‘ Healers’ embodies Myer’s self-dictated style of ‘musical jank’. Favouring as hambling, loose performance style, his songs of infatuation and romantic connection recall the homespun 80s indie of The Go Betweens or Aztec Camera, while informed by a studied interest in classic English folk and Delta Blues. Produced at TheCrypt by Jack Ogborne (The New Eves, Bingo Fury, The Cindys), and sounding like a set piece from the Harold and Maude soundtrack - ‘Healers’ captures the whimsical, carefree headiness that stretches its open arms across Tinderbox.

It’s a style that places him more on bills with indie bands than with folk traditionalists. A member of art-rock quartet The Scuttlers, he’s fresh from tour dates with Naima Bock and Sorry and has featured on bills with rising acts Truthpaste, TheSlowCountry and Morn Speaking more about the track, Myer says: "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. There’s a thread throughout, that the two act as a kind of medicine for one another.”

1. Backbencher 
2. Make A Bet 
3. Simple Sailing 
4. The Margaret Rose 
5. Healers 
6. Sense by Sense 
7. As A Sparrow 
8. T Totalled 
9. Surviving Colliding 
10. For Fortune 
11. More Than Assure You