""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 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.""
Martin Carr, formerly of The Boo Radleys, announced a new album titled What Future to be released later this year on his Sonny Boy Records label. Carr released the song "Connie Converse is Playing at My House," which pays tribute to 1950s singer-songwriter Connie Converse and nods to LCD Soundsystem. Carr discovered Connie Converse after hearing a true crime podcast, listened to her music obsessively, read Howard Fishman's book about her life, and described a dream in which Converse played unusual sounds on a large Moog synth in his kitchen. Carr also made the song's video.
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