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Artist: Charlie's Hand Movements
Genre: Pop, Alternative Pop, Melodic Wimp-Rock
Country: UK
Duration: 01:48:32

Albums:

2013 - Actors (WEB)

Tracklisting:
01. Just Like Autumn Leaves [2:56]
02. Cereal Box [2:57]
03. Invincible [3:04]
04. Guns, Violence & Whores [3:02]
05. Actors [3:18]
06. Before the Lights Go Out [3:49]
07. Lost & Lonely in Calais [3:22]
08. Tonight [2:17]
09. If That's Alright [5:10]
10. I Won't Try to Move You [2:22]
11. Didn't See This One Coming [4:12]
12. A Sea of Hands [3:11]
13. Hopelessly/Helplessly [5:06]

Duration: 00:44:45

Album Info

Recorded between December 2012 & May 2013 at Greenacres, except Track 2 which features additional recording from The Meat Room & Schiernecker Towers. Mixed & mastered by Lance M Keeble. Track 2 features a guest vocal by Kate Crudgington.

We have also produced a limited edition of 100 free physical copies in Digipak format, featuring full album artwork and a pull-out lyric sheet. Please feel free to contact us if you are interested in one of these.

Thanks for listening.

credits
released 12 June 2013
Charlie's Hand Movements are: Adam J Gardner & Lance M Keeble

2015 - In Glorious Technicolor (WEB)

Tracklisting:
01. Don't You Dare, Boy [3:29]
02. The 11th Floor [3:18]
03. Take It Slow [3:10]
04. Dead Man Walking [3:54]
05. Buried Under the Bracken [3:14]
06. Another Day, Another Life [3:32]
07. Pulsar [2:50]
08. Over & Out [6:48]
09. A Poor Excuse [3:32]
10. Did I Keep You from the Light? [6:28]

Duration: 00:40:17

Album Info

This is our new album. It's taken a while to get to this point but we think it's finally ready to see the light of day now... and that's not to say that we thought the songs weren't good enough or anything, but just that other things get in the way... and life... and equipment... and software... and (blah).

We think it's better than the last one and hope that you do too. Incidentally, if you don't have the last one to compare against, it's out there floating around on a variety of Slovenian torrent sites of fairly ill repute.

So, yeah, these songs... they were all written after we finished Actors, between Autumn 2013 and Summer 2014, and were recorded at Greenacres over that period. What you hear is actually the second attempt we made at it. The first one died a miserable death in early 2014 and, after the poor thing breathed its last frail breath into the Benfleet air, we ceremonially burnt the tracklist in the woods, vowed to honour its memory and then started again with renewed purpose. Then technology happened. Then nothing. Then a lot of curries with Lee, followed by a lot of doubt and more curries both with and without Lee. Finally, towards the end of 2014, a new, bigger and shinier computer came into our lives and the last six months or so have seen Lance solemnly donning his producer hat and sifting through the sessions in order to chisel something great out of them.

Among our small circle of friends there are a number of people whom we feel we should thank for their continued interest and encouragement. So, in no particular order, much love to Freya, Natalie, Sam, Cat, Paul and Cooper. Oh, and of course to Mick Gawthorp for the awesome (improvised) sax on DYDB and Rory McQueen for the beautifully understated, note-perfect sleeve. We hope to produce a physical copy which does the design justice soon, along with some other stuff, but more on that later. Cheers also to Ollie at BBC Essex for being kind enough to broadcast some of our songs, and last but by no means least, to our good friend Lee for helping out with videos, eating curry with us, and, frankly, making sure we got this whole thing finished. Ta again, everyone, it's appreciated.

Too much writing now. One more thing before we sign off though: If you're new to us, like what you hear and feel that you want to do so, then please share our stuff around. I mean, we're not into the whole "let's get as many Likes as we can, real or otherwise" thing at all, but we do want to reach as many interested people as we possibly can, and just one single person who genuinely digs what we've done is worth more to us than anything else. So, yeah, if you have various means of getting it out there... and you want to do it... then please go ahead and share. Fill yer boots, as they say. Every little bit helps, and we definitely need as much help as we can get.

So that's it... In Glorious Technicolor. Finished. Finally. Cheers.

We're gonna start recording a new EP now. We plan to have it out by Summer.

Anyway, thanks for looking & listening and we hope you enjoy the album.

* The 11th Floor contains samples from 'I'm Glad There Is You' and 'Little Girl Blue' by Vince Hill, as found on his 1966 LP, Have You Met….?
credits
released April 14, 2015

Written and recorded by Charlie's Hand Movements
Mixed by Lance M Keeble

EP's

2015 - Flow {EP} (WEB)

Tracklisting:
01. Flow [5:29]
02. Pull the Other One [2:22]
03. Nightsky [3:43]
04. Kicking & Screaming [3:21]
05. Drill [4:23]
06. Reruns [4:12]

Duration: 00:23:30

EP Info

This is our new EP. The six songs are all things that started to form together around the time that we were finishing up with In Glorious Technicolor, and it was exciting but also super-frustrating as we had to focus on getting the album wrapped up first. But it's difficult when things drag on for as long as IGT did because, as weeks of tinkering and dead ends turn into months of tinkering and dead ends, inevitably you start to lose a little interest and become more excited by the ideas that you are generating in the moment. If anything though, it was the thought of moving onto these songs that probably gave us the final push needed to get the album done. Although these six songs feel related to the album, we were completely set on that particular sequence of songs and knew that these couldn't simply be tacked on at the end. We're different people now than we were in 2014. They had to be their own thing, but as a set they still feel very much a companion piece to the album.

We know that we trot out this particular cliché every time that we put something new out there, but this release really feels to us like our best work to date. This is also reflected in the fact that this is the first time we've put something online without there being a free download option. Obviously we don't expect anybody to buy what we're making, but we value what we do and spend an awful lot of time working at it... and maybe just giving it away for free doesn't exactly suggest that we care as much as we do. We want to be heard and we want people to enjoy listening to our stuff and, yeah, we'd love to experience some kind of success - however modest - but we want to do it with music that we believe in 100%. Having the confidence to put even a small monetary value on our music is a sign of that. So, yeah, we've set the price at £3 for the download and shortly there will be gorgeous physical copies available for £4. Of course, if you don't want to do that you can always stream it, rip it by foul means or send us a message... it's totally up to you!

We'd envisaged Flow as being a somewhat transitory thing, paving the way for the kind of place we want to go to for the next album, but it's kind of turned out that we're pretty much there already. We're milling about on the doorstep, peering through the letterbox. Nobody's answering yet, but they will one day, and it will be fucking amazing.

So that's what we'll be doing soon. Going underground. We'd love to perform live in the coming months and we'll certainly put some music out, but we've been throwing ideas around for album number three for a little while now and can't wait to get started proper on that before the year is out. If nothing else, it's going to be an interesting one to say the least.

Thanks so much for looking & listening. We hope you enjoy this one.
credits
released August 21, 2015

Written and recorded at Greenacres by Charlie's Hand Movements
Mixed by Lance M Keeble
Sleeve by Rory McQueen (www.x-raycat.com)


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