New music: Chad Valley – Now That I'm Real (How Does It Feel?)

A soaring paean to youthful hopes and dreams that comes with an intimate black-and-white videoLast July, for my first ever new music blog, I featured Oxford's Hugo Manuel, aka Chad Valley, and the rather lovely Up and Down. Nearly a year later, Manuel is about to release a seven-track follow-up entitled Equatorial Ultravox that – despite sounding like an album title Muse would reject for being too overblown – is a continuation of his brilliant way with lush, melancholic electronica. The firs...

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