Myer U Clark (Album Launch)

Myer U Clark caught songwriting fever aged 8 and the bug hasn’t left since. Hosting his first gigs to his Jack Russell Albie from his idle Devonshire valley village, he chose an English Literature course at university just so he could get better at writing lyrics. He began playing gigs in Bristol, then couldn’t stop booking them, developing a shambling and instinctive performance style that favours absurdism and looseness over slick perfectionism.

Marking the announcement of new album ‘Tinderbox’ - due 26th June - and his first with underground folk champions Broadside Hacks Recordings (Goblin Band, 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 a shambling, 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 The Crypt 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, The Slow Country and Morn.