Martin Carr – songwriter, guitarist, filmmaker, graphic artist, and creative force behind The Boo Radleys and bravecaptain – has shared his groundbreakingly unconventional new single, “Connie Converse Is Playing At My House,” 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. “Connie Converse Is Playing At My House” marks the first release from What Future, an all-new solo album of distracted beats and messy electronics arriving later this year.

“A couple of years ago I listened to a true crime podcast about a little-known singer-songwriter who had home-recorded her own wildly original music in the late 1950s and had then gone missing in the 1970s,” says Martin Carr. “That was the first time I had heard the name Connie Converse and within a week I had listened to her songs a thousand times. I really connected to her personal and self-effacing lyrics, there is a yearning in her songs that I recognise in my own. I had to find out everything I could about her, which led me to Howard Fishman’s excellent book, To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse. My obsession peaked when I had a dream that she was playing in my kitchen, making beautiful and strange noises on a huge old Moog synth.”