Martin Carr (Boo Radleys/Bravecaptain) set to release brand new album – ‘What Future’
MARTIN CARR (BOO RADLEYS/BRAVECAPTAIN) SET TO
RELEASE BRAND NEW ‘WHAT FUTURE’ ALBUM 01.05
CREATIVE FORCE BEHIND THE BOO RADLEYS AND BRAVECAPTAIN
HERALDS EAGERLY AWAITED NEW SOLO ALBUM WITH A
STRIKINGLY UNCONVENTIONAL SOUND
‘WHAT FUTURE’ LP ARRIVES 01.05 VIA CARR’S
OWN SONNY BOY RECORDS
Artist: ‘Martin Carr’
Album Title: ‘What Future’
Album Release Date: 01.05.26
Label: Sonny Boy Records
Location: Cardiff, Wales
Format: Digital Album
Socials: @Martin_Carr @Beastpruk
Genre: Electronic / Experimental
‘What Future’ Album Stream
https://on.soundcloud.com/RBHR
WATCH “WHAT FUTURE” SINGLE VIDEO HERE
https://youtu.be/lFOVkI2tNrQ?s
‘WHAT FUTURE’ 4/5 MOJO MAGAZINE
“Not only one of the most redoubtable tunesmiths of his generation, but one of its most adventurous sonic architects as well.” – PITCHFORK
Martin Carr – visionary songwriter, guitarist, filmmaker, graphic artist, and creative force behind The Boo Radleys and Bravecaptain – has shared the groundbreakingly unconventional title track from forthcoming record ‘What Future’ available today exclusively via the Cardiff-based artist’s own Sonny Boy Records.
A self-directed and animated official music video premieres today at YouTube. “What Future” marks the second release from What Future, an all-new solo album of distracted beats and messy electronics arriving May 1st.
Martin Carr added: “I’ve been putting together these sounds for many years but this is the first time where I thought ‘this doesn’t really sound like anything else’ and decided to put it out. All my lyrics over the past thirty-five years have been about the same thing ‘What’s Wrong With Me?’ but this time I decided to show, not tell”.
“I find it hard to stick to one thing for very long, even within two minutes of music. I have a constant lowkey dread running through my central nervous system, I am prone to paranoia and anxiety and all that feeds into the atmosphere of the album without me having to come up with new ways of expressing myself lyrically. The shifts in tone and texture reflect my thinking, rather than being a stylistic choice”.
“I’m inspired by producers such as Rza, Prefuse 73 and Pole (there are many others), world builders all. I love King Tubby’s use of space and technology; I see him as a bridge between organic live music and electronic music. I love Vernon Elliot’s sad fuzzy womb music and the dreamy madness of Eden Ahbez. I start with a sound; it could be a snatch of an isolated McCartney bassline from Abbey Road or a snatch of SF Sorrow by the Pretty Things”.
“It could be a voice not of my daughter talking or the van that drives around here blaring Mark E Smith sounding exhortations for any scrap we may want to get rid of. I build on top of these until they are lost or discarded. I make a huge mess then I start chipping away at it until it starts to sound like something.”
‘What Future’ follows last year’s release of The Canton Hours, a collection of original odds and sods recorded in the wake of Carr’s critically acclaimed third solo album, 2017’s New Shapes of Life.
“A suave, sophisticated, rhythmically robust pop record whose swagger belies deep-seated feelings of disillusionment, self-doubt, and paranoia,” declared Pitchfork of the latter LP.
“As he did with the Boos, Carr never lets his experimentation overwhelm or topple his song structures; he’s more interested in seeing what he can get away with in the confines of a four-minute tune.”
“Very possibly the best thing he has ever released,” wrote CLASH in a 9/10 rave review.
“The beginning of a new era for Martin Carr, an artist in rare form.” “His finest work since The Boo Radleys,” wrote Record Collector.
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