Superball Music will release the debut album from talented singer & multi-instrumentalist Charlie Barnes, titled album 'More Stately Mansions', on the 11th May 2015 in Europe. Now he is pleased to reveal the title track of the album which you can stream over at Clash Music here:

https://www.clashmusic.com/news/premiere-charlie-barnes-more-stately-mansions

Charlie had this to say about the track: "More Stately Mansions was one of those songs that, for the most part, came together without my really realising. Writing it was a case of putting together a patchwork of little ideas I'd had lying around, but the trigger that brought it all together was singing the melody for the chorus (...and I use that term very lightly in this case) into my phone on the way to the cinema one night.

I'm so proud of this song. It's one of the most bonkers things I've ever written, but without being obtuse. It's still fundamentally just a pop song with a melody you can whistle. Unusually for me, the lyrics came together very quickly and easily. I don't even remember writing half of them. It's nothing ground breaking really; early twenties contemplation of your place in the world and why we do the things we do, how the hell to keep your head above water and all that. It's actually one of the least personal songs on the album, at least in an autobiographical sense, but I feel it's some of the most succinct writing I've ever managed."

You can also receive a digital download of the track immediately when you pre-order the album through Amazon and iTunes here:
https://smarturl.it/cbarnesITUNES
https://smarturl.it/cbarnesAMAZONMP3

Watch the recently released video for 'Sing To God' here: https://youtu.be/jdUmctqu_Jc

Charlie has also confirmed a selection of solo and full band live dates which you can find below:

April 11th - Fox & Newt, Leeds
13th April - Oporto, Leeds, UK (solo w/ The Retrospective Soundtrack Players)
14th April - Star and Garter, Manchester, UK (solo w/ The Retrospective Soundtrack Players)
3rd May ' Handmade Festival, Leicester, UK (band)
12th May ' Brudenell Games Room, Leeds, UK (album launch)
13th May ' Eagle Inn, Manchester, UK w/ Vennart (band)
23rd Mat ' Way Back When Festival, Dortmund, Germany (band)
24th May - Maifeld Derby, Mannheim, Germany (band)
June 20th - Turnitout All-dayer, Manchester
July 25th - West Street Live, Sheffield
August 22nd - Obstwiesenfestival, Ulm

As part of the promotion for the album, Charlie has also been asked by Leeds based coffee roastery North Star to create his own signature blend. He spent a lot of his early twenties playing solo in coffee houses around the UK and Europe, whilst working part-time making coffee back home in Leeds and it seems to have paid off. More information on that to come!

Disorientating and captivating in equal measure during early appearances in Student Union bars and basement venues either side of the Pennines, as well as at European festivals Melt and Reeperbahn, the Leeds-based artist's early performances took on the guise of a man vs. machine solo rock opera. Songs were constructed on stage as he writhed about on his stool like Silver Apples on uppers - the transmissions from his web of loop pedals, keyboards, pads and samplers seemingly coursing through his body's contortions. More Stately Mansions hasn't changed the process much, it's just that ' as he puts it ' "the extra pairs of hands aren't channels on a loopstation or sample libraries anymore, they're owned by other people with their own ideas."

Mostly recorded at Chapel Studios in Lincolnshire, with vocals put down in an isolated cottage in the middle of Wales, More Stately Mansions deals with unashamedly bold brush strokes. Songs like 'Sing To God's' gossamer strings strike delicately amidst rumbling percussion and several moments of histrionic guitar malevolence that recall those aforementioned teenage influences; the title track's layered vocals hark back to Queen in their mid-70's pomp, while 'Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth' rises and falls on a series of scything post-hardcore riff acrobatics. All of this is cut through with a climactic vocal that bores out vestiges of Jeff Buckley, or even Freddie Mercury, delivered with an overwhelming sincerity that goads its audience out of apathy and into a reaction, an expressive way of performing that Barnes has embraced since childhood.

CHARLIE BARNES online:
www.charliebarnesmusic.co.uk
www.facebook.com/charliebarnesmusic

SUPERBALL MUSIC online:
www.superballmusic.com
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