Solo battle . Charlotte vs Intangir . uWAqCb 3 IJNct 3 s . Yes . I just . Felt like doing something else besides manually grinding my TMs . <| sep |> Hidden Charms artist picimg 2 . akamaized . netiu 252319 c 0724904 a 43 b 0 c 34626 a 38026 c 9 f 7 . png There can be few modern bands that could tempt a legendary producer like Shel Talmy , the man who produced some of the greatest hits of the 1960 s and 70 s , among them The Who ' s My Generation and The Kinks ' You Really Got Me out of semiretirement to work with them , just as there can be few modern bands who would manage to prompt no less than The Kinks ' Dave Davies onto Twitter in vocal admiration of them quite so early in their career . They sound both thrillingly new and yet drenched in musical history , a serendipitously assembled garage rock outfit chock full of swampy rhythm and blues , and a singer two , actually both reminiscent of Van Morrison at the age of 19 , all vim and sticky vigour . So here are the mandatory details . They are from London , and there are four of them Vincent Davies , the 20 yearold singer , guitarist and bassist Ranald Macdonald , the 21 yearold cosinger , keyboardist , guitarist and bassist 21 yearold Josh Lewis on guitar and bass and 20 yearold Oscar Robertson on drums . That ' s a lot of guitars for just four people , but a sound like theirs isn ' t going to happen without them . They combine the ramshackle hedonism of , say , The 13 th Floor Elevators with the swagger of the White Stripes , and if Vincent has the vocal inflections of a young Steve Winwood circa the Spencer Davis Group , then Ranald boasts the full throttled fervour of early Van Morrison . It all adds up to quite a brew . The band met , not on the indie circuit because they ' ve never been on the indie circuit , but rather in the subterranean blues clubs in and around the capital . At first , the four of them were in two separate acts that gravitated toward one another under the conviction they had something together that , separately , they did not . They played their first ever gig in April 2014 now , a year on , they have written an album ' s worth of songs , recorded with their hero , had airplay by Huw Stephens Radio 1 , Jason Bentley KCRW , Jo Good XFM and played 60 live shows up and down the UK supporting acts such as Benjamin Booker , Hanni El Khatib . Early live shows were thrilling and chaotic , and they began to attract a crowd . A video clip of the bands 2 nd ever show passed through many hands , and resulted in one of the tracks getting radio play in the U . S on the SiriusXM satellite network . Amongst those who heard it was Shel Talmy . He was put in touch with the band ' s management to talk about producing their music . They did not have to be asked twice , and jumped on the next plane west . That was fate , says Vincent , laughing , before adding , but I think the rest of the band may tell you otherwise mere luck , perhaps . Thing is , we were listening to a lot of records at the time , and all our favourites seemed to be produced by Shel . So to then have him contact us was just amazing , unreal . They spent 10 days in Los Angeles in the company of a legendary producer , watching , listening , learning . Together , they recorded a handful of songs , amongst them the band ' s first single , Dreaming of Another Girl , its fantastic spidery guitar line and Ranald ' s throbbing vocal ache the perfect introduction to a band with so many abundant sonic thrills . Read more on Last . fm . Charms 11 , 712 listeners , 39 , 114 plays tags 80 s , alternative rock , swedish , UK , Garage Rock Please downvote if incorrect ! Selfdeletes if score is 0 .