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We prefer "wasta". He's from west London, you know, so some might say "trustafarian" He didn't have matted dreads at school, although it could so easily have happened considering how all his focus back then was on music — when he wasn't busy learning the cello or singing with the choir he was writing poetry and getting into folk and country via Bob Dylan.
You would guess from his singles and their attendant B-sides — Love Lust, Mr Flick, Time of Eternity, Beating Hearts — that he also discovered at a young age the collected works of Donovan, Marc Bolan circa Tyrannosaurus Rex, and Syd Barrett because he is part of that tradition of uniquely English, psych-inflected pastoral whimsy well, not completely uniquely — Devendra Banhart operates in a similar area.
Not surprisingly, it's catching on with the same sort of people who last year loved Noah and the Whale and this year seem to have switched allegiances to Mumford and Sons. Before becoming the favourite new plaything of the likes of Tom Robinson and Huw Stephens, he spent some time gigging in girls' schools across England and apparently "rescued a baby giraffe from the jaws of a jackal" according to his press release, neither of which experiences inform the lyrics of his debut single, Time of Eternity, which appeares to address the apocalypse and death, in that order, over frazzled electric folk.
On the follow-up, Love Lust, he compares and contrasts the relative merits of sex and the other thing over pounding piano and what sounds like a washboard. Elsewhere he uses ancient shanties, a cappella operatics, skiffle and raunch rock to enhance his idiosyncratic visions. Well, someone's got to do it, and it might as well be this dandy in the underworld. The buzz: "Gloriously psychedelic and exploding with vibrant sounds. Fop, anyone? Most likely to: Cut a dash. Least likely to: Cut his hair.
Flick is released by Mi7 on 9 November. Links: myspace. In June we introduced the strangely charming King Charles, a man of plentiful hair and pedigree tunes.
You can read what we said then here. It now appears that the second single from King Charles will be the learned and sage Love Lust, released through Mi7 records at some point later this year, most likely we suspect around the time when he steps out on the road with Mumford and Sons for their September tour dates. I always wonder about that moment of transition, when an ordinary person becomes an artist, or an icon.
I suppose it must have something to do with a depersonalization, or an elevation or a sublimination or something. But back to King Charles, a very exciting musician, as well as one that has the garments to match. When I finally did meet Charles it took a while to find the artiste he was remarkably candid about his own background and the birth of the band. Unhappy with the way his music was progressing, Charles very much took control. XFM: John Kennedy. Within the frantic, Pixies meets Syd Barrett explosion of chaos, lies a melodic heart, a pop song fighting its way out of the sonic maze.
His music is a ferocious battle cry for love.
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