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<\/a><\/p>\nWith strained, characterful vocals that could be likened to any of rock and roll’s legends and danceability that comes from somewhere deeper than the electronic thuds we’re used to, Hidden Charms are welcome breath of whiskeyed cigarette smoke. Their next release, “Dreaming Of Another Girl”, produced by the legendary Shel Tamy, comes tinged with psych thanks to sweet and hazy harmonies alongside a creeping, swaying bassline.<\/p>\n
The product of two blues bands merging, Hidden Charms have been doing the rounds for little over a year now. Fashion fans might have already spotted Oscar and Ranald looking dapper alongside Tom Odell and plenty more bright young things in Burberry’s AW15 campaign. With the imminent release of “Dreaming Of Another Girl”, a full UK tour and a handful of European appearances on the way, you’re bound to be seeing a lot more of these boys. We won’t be complaining.<\/p>\n
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Can you tell us how Hidden Charms came to be?<\/b><\/p>\n
Ranald: We all met through music. There were a couple of bands all playing on the same blues circuit in London and we formed essentially when two bands merged, it was about a year and half ago.<\/p>\n
What drew you all towards music as a career? Has it been as you imagined?<\/b><\/p>\n
Ranald: I guess it was just a love of bands that we all grew up listening to that made us want to go into it. People like the Beatles and the kinks and the early blues stuff, for me it was Elvis. I think it hasn\u2019t really hit us that the band’s going OK now, it’s so competitive that we never really thought it would.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ve worked with Shel Tamy! How was the experience? What was the most valuable thing you learnt?<\/b><\/p>\n
Vincent: Working with Shel was undoubtedly a dream come true, he is in the top tier of producers that have ever existed. He was a pleasure to work with and surprisingly easy going! For someone of that status he was very open minded, as the person who was the first to record a distorted guitar and feedback, it should have come as no surprise. I think that\u2019s exactly what we learned from him; to keep growing as a creator you have to keep an open mind which sounds obvious but I think a lot of the time when creative people have success they get stuck in their ways which is the difference between them and the geniuses of this world.<\/p>\n
Do you think you\u2019re heading down the same road as The Kinks and The Who? Is there anything they\u2019ve done that you really want to match?<\/b><\/p>\n
Vincent: We don\u2019t want to be dead or accused of paedophilia but we wouldn\u2019t mind headlining Glastonbury so that\u2019s a hard question to answer. Those are legends so it would be impossible to say we\u2019re heading the same way but everyone can dream!<\/p>\n