Charles Douglas
Summertime / Good Luck

4
...according to our Business Lady on 01 September 2010.

This is a sexy little bitchwax. Two corkers from Charles Douglas's rarely appreciated 1999 LP “The Lives of Charles Douglas”. This is New York indie rock at it's finest. Cheap, cheerful and effortlessly simplistic pop story telling bolstered by the appearance of percussion genius Moe Tucker (The Velvet Underground) on drums. 'Summertime' is a two chord ode to the best of all the seasons. It's Richman vs The Vaselines with no decisive outcome. 'Good Luck' apes Lou Reed and is just as good. Especially digging the synth and guitar lines on this beauty. Packaged with GPS's flair and limited to 300 copies. Get in there kids.

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What their label says...

Beginning to appear on many “great lost album” lists of late, is the incredible 1999 album “The Lives of Charles Douglas”. Produced by, and featuring percussion from the Velvets’ one and only Moe Tucker with Engineering and Guitar from UVS’ Kurt Ralske. Like many great albums before it (and something Moe herself is acutely aware of, of course) when released (on No.6 records in US) small pockets of listeners fell in love with it immediately but only years later has it’s true value began to shine.
 
The single here features 2 insanely catchy, New York pop gems- think a Moe produced collision of Lou, Velvets, Modern Lovers and Beat Happening. All this and it’s ridiculously well dressed too- half clear vinyl, half green vinyl, full colour picture labels and numbered out of 300. Sweet. Hike up the volume in anticipation for a UK release for the full length later in the year on Broken horse.