New EP: Half Deaf Clatch || Back To Basics

Earlier this year we raved about the Feels Like Home LP by British blues singer/songwriter/guitarist Andrew McLatchie who makes music under the moniker of Half Deaf Clatch, and he’s already back with this Back To Basics EP. We get four original acoustic songs that are carried by compelling guitar playing and personal lyrics by heartfelt gritty vocals, but the instruments* used – “recorded through vacuum tube mic pre-amps for added warmth, saturation and dirt” – show how much love and care is put into it. Authentic craftsmanship, how beautiful.

Back To Basics, written, performed, recorded, mixed & mastered by A D McLatchie, is out now digitally and on homemade CD through Speak Up Recordings. *Featuring a vintage ‘Raven’ acoustic guitar, a battered ‘Rust Bucket’ resonator guitar, acoustic bass, nylon Strung open back banjo, 22 inch frame drum, small African hand drums, assorted shakers, tambourines, forest sticks, a Kalimba played with a stick, a wok being hit with a hammer, and the organ is from a Roland JV 10-10 outboard module with a controller keyboard, routed through an Orange ‘Crush’ acoustic amp, then mic’d up and recorded live.

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