“Rather Lovely Electro-Folk” – Mark Radcliffe & Stuart Maconie – BBC 6 Music
“The feel of Elliott Smith & Sufjan Stevens” – Scottish Daily Express ★★★★
“Haunting” – The Sunday Times
Chris Cleverley was born under a solstice moon, in the honeysuckle mysticism of a late 80s Midsummer.
Cleverley’s boundary-shattering ‘Dream-Folk’ songwriting sits on the cutting edge of modern folk. A true guitar-man, his elaborate alternate tunings, percussive rhythms and ambient sound design flow beneath a visceral lyrical style inspired by the Lo-fi American Greats, Elliott Smith & Sufjan Stevens; a curious tapestry weaved from the hazy psychedelia of the 60s folk revival and the soulful oblivion of 90s Pacific Northwest.
FATEA Male Artist Of The Year 2019 & 2022
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I’m really happy to be back on the road for a series of gigs supporting the release of my new album ‘Live From The Glass Isle’. It will be wonderful to be back in venues, seeing everyone again, catching up and sharing stories about our experience of this strange new world. Would be great to […]
I’m very pleased to say I will be releasing a new record called ‘Live From The Glass Isle’ on Friday 6th August 2021. It is an album of reimagined versions of a number of my older songs, arranged for solo acoustic guitar and voice and recorded with a live feel. It will be available as […]
I’m really pleased to announce I have been selected to participate in the 2021 round of the Global Music Match programme. This is a worldwide collaborative event uniting 78 artists from 17 countries over the next 3 months. I’m repping English Folk Expo’s ‘Team England’ with 5 amazing artists; Eliza Marshall, Dan Whitehouse, Lucy Farrell, […]
I’m really pleased to share the official music video for my new single ‘The Arrows and the Armour’. It was filmed in September 2020, between lockdowns in my hometown of Birmingham. Huge thanks to Redwood Music Photography for another triumphant production. Please give it a look and leave a comment if you enjoyed it: Official […]
I was really happy to release my new single ‘The Arrows and the Armour’ on Friday 16th April. It’s the second single from my album ‘We Sat Back and Watched it Unfold. Want to hear the brand new radio edit? Spotify: Listen here Bandcamp: Download here
I’m excited to announce my next live stream concert. It’s a launch party for the release of my forthcoming single ‘The Arrows and the Armour‘. I’ll be streaming from YouTube on Saturday 17th April from 8:30-9:30 pm GMT. CLICK HERE to add the event to your YouTube reminders. It’s a free concert but PayPal donations […]
I’m pleased to share that I’ll be releasing the 2nd single from my album ‘We Sat Back and Watched it Unfold’ on Friday 16th April 2021. ‘The Arrows and the Armour’ will be available to download and stream worldwide from this date. CLICK HERE to head on over to my Official Bandcamp page and select […]
Hi friends. As a festive thank you to all my wonderful mailing list supporters I’m offering 25% off all CDs and Merch from my Bandcamp page this December. To access the discount code, Make sure you’re signed up the the mailing list on the right hand side of this page or by clicking HERE.
I want to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who supported the Lockdown Gramophone Circle project in November 2020. To everyone who donated, watched the videos, shared social media posts and said encouraging things, you were all integral to raising this total If you happened to miss this project then you can still catch one […]
World Mental Health Day 2020 In recognition of this important day, I was really lucky to be joined by three fantastic musicians for this exclusive live arrangement of my song ‘A Voice For Those Who Don’t Have One’. This is a song about the reluctant kind of conversations that you may have with yourself and […]
