Clinton Hensley

Virginia-based musician Clinton Hensley founded the Royheads with previous classmate Randall Hodge following the two bonded more than a shared love of experimental music. Their LP, About Anything with an increase of to Arrive & 12 Additional Songs, showed up on Quit//Gap Records by the end of 2009, showcasing the duo’s unstable eclecticism affected by psychedelic pop, modal jazz, and avant-garde traditional. The following yr, Hensley released his debut solo recording, Here’s to Ambivalence, that was substantially much less frenetic than his use the Royheads. The 2012 follow-up, Tripping Over Cushions, continuing to hone Hensley’s psych-pop design. 2015 saw the discharge of Hensley’s most sprawling collection however, the 80-minute Needle in Natural cotton, which incorporated components of spirit, blues, stoner rock and roll, post-punk, and orchestral pop into his ever-expanding audio.