Over the years Wigan has been famous for “Heinz Baked Beans”, “De Roma Ice Cream” and the timeless classic “Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls”! Now it see’s its latest export: Charlie Hughes. His silky smooth vocals, catchy melodies and passive-aggressive lyrics make the perfect recipe for to launch a new brand of music… Just like his predecessors George Formby and The Verve who came before him, Charlie set to create a new flavour of music, appealing to ever growing eclectic taste of listeners today.
Lay Me Down / Pretty Little Dynamite is the second release by Charlie Hughes, which reveals a darker tone from his previous release Strawberries & Stars. Still keeping in with the “MST Sound”, this latest single turns on it’s head the accepted view of the singer-songwriter status-quo. “It doesn’t follow the hipster herd off the edge of the cliff into a sea of mediocrity” – FreashBeats365. The flipside to Lay Me Down, Pretty Little Dynamite was first song Charlie had ever written and has now surfaced itself here. The song’s sparseness and excellent vocal delivery will leave your hairs standing on end.
We could describe this single as “Stunning”, “incredible”, “phenomenal”, etc, etc… We won’t. There will always be people who don’t like Charlie Hughes, or . But equally, as his snowballing fanbase and industry “buzz” demonstrates, there will always be those who love him! Whichever side of the Marmite debate people fall on, one thing is for sure…
Anyone who is serious about music will have to give his music a bloody good listen! This is a single and an Artist, that’s impossible to ignore!
Lay Me Down / Pretty Little Dynamite released digitally on January 29th 2016.