Jeff Clarke is a seeker. From the rough and ready ministrations of his hellraising, garage-rocking days in Demon's Claws and The Black Lips, to the wounded world-weariness that still cracks through the polish of his lusher latest solo effort "Miracle after Miracle after ...", the idiosyncratic gospel he preaches is always shot through with a hard-won resilience, an uncanny naïveté, a persistent sense of curiosity. 

The album is, in contrast to his previous solo work “Locust” (recorded in a single session in a forest), more beautifully embellished, but never overloaded—there is plenty of room for the strangely melancholic voice and songwriting, which is finely woven but occasionally also sharply edged.

At its heart, this is folk music, and such traditionally excellent songwriting makes comparisons both easy to make and inherently reductive. Clarke is drawing from the same well as countless other psychic diarist. He could be mentioned in the same breath as Connie Converse, Daniel Johnston and Atlas Sound, for example. But Clarke so successfully locates himself within this tradition of artists as to make references redundant, if not breaking the mold, then stretching it into a shape all...  mehr

Mitwirkende

veröffentlicht am 12. Dezember 2025

Vocals & Guitar Jeff Clarke

Drums Omri Gondor

Keys Jeff Clarke

Backing Vocals Oska Wald (Poor Irene, Book of Paul, At the station,

Funnel Clouds, Delay my Hand)

Mixing Omri Gondor

Mastering Nene Baratto

Recorded in Berlin at Audion Studio

All songs written by Bunker Douglas & Associates

Artwork by Paz Bonfil

p+c Bretford Records, 2025