[Cover photo credit to Martin Carr]

Martin Carr is the songwriter, guitarist, filmmaker, graphic artist, and creative force behind The Boo Radleys and bravecaptain. Carr has shared new single, “Connie Converse Is Playing At My House,” via the artist’s own Sonny Boy Records. A self-directed and animated official music video accompanies it.

Recorded at Carr’s home studio in Cardiff, Wales, “Connie Converse Is Playing At My House”, which includes an interpolation of the songstress’s “Connie Checks the Mic”, marks the first release from What Future, an all-new solo album arriving later this year.

Martin Carr says:

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. 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.

What Future follows last year’s release of The Canton Hours, a collection recorded in the wake of Carr’s third solo album, 2017’s New Shapes of Life.