For immediate release:
September 9, 2020
CHARLIE BURG
SHARES NEW SINGLE
OUT NOW VIA FADER LABEL
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"Combining the intellectualism of Vampire Weekend and the raw danceability of Toro y Moi, Burg is certainly an artist to keep your eyes on." |
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Photo credit: Angela Ricciardi
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Brooklyn-based, Metro-Detroit-bred singer-songwriter, Charlie Burg, shares B-side, "Title Guide to the Talkies," from his double single release: “Lancaster Nights”/”Title Guide to the Talkies,” out today via FADER Label. A brand new video is also out now, that combines the two singles.
A-side,"Lancaster Nights," debuted on Sept 2 and since Zane Lowe played the single on Apple Music 1. It was also added to Apple Music playlists such as New In Alternative and New Music Daily. The track also was added to several Spotify curated playlists, including New Music Friday and All New Indie.
After previously sharing three EPs, his last EP, Three, Fever, grabbed the attention of major tastemakers at Beats1, Spotify (including playlists like Lorem, Pollen and Fresh Finds) and more. He also just toured with Ashe, Jeremy Zucker, and Moonchild. Burg is only 23-years-old and the list of accomplishments continues to stack up, just like his stream-count. Burg sailed past 1.4 million plays on his last single, "Channel Orange In Your Living Room" and the numbers keep climbing.
As one of FADER Label's newest artists, Variety describes Burg as "an R&B-leaning singer-songwriter who attended Syracuse University’s music-business program," and Music Business Worldwide reports that he "has amassed millions of streams across Spotify and Apple Music. Burg has sold out headlining shows in New York and Los Angeles."
Continuing his tradition of charity work, much like he did for City Harvest in April 2020, Burg is launching a new t-shirt, for sale on his website. The newest Charlie Burg merch is designed by artist Bianca Fields, and all proceeds will be donated to the Intersectional Environmentalist, an initiative dedicated to dismantling systems of oppression in the environmentalist movement.
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Matt Wilksinson of Beats 1, who premiered "Channel Orange In Your Living Room," says the single is Burg's "most self-assured track yet."
"I want people to know that every and any story can be interesting if you find the narrative in it," Burg explains regarding his artistic—and humanistic—aims. "Some songwriters might lack confidence in their own story, but the fact is that their lives are the stories that no one else owns. When people hear my music, I want them to be able to look inside themselves and realize there's life, art, and beauty in everything."
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BIO
Charlie Burg hits that sweet spot between soul and sensitivity—a songwriter that captures in-the-moment feelings to engage in deeper reflection, wrapped in genre-resistant sounds that simultaneously resemble modern pop's fluidity and a certain generation-spanning timelessness. At the age of 23, he's already cut an impressive figure on his own; and with the arrival of his new single "Lancaster Nights," he clearly has nowhere to go but up.
Music has always been in the Michigan-hailing artist's life. When Burg was five years old he sang in the Jewish synagogue with his siblings and soon found his father's acoustic guitar in his hands, self-teaching songs from the Beatles and Coldplay as part of his musical journey. Early influences spanned the classic sounds of Motown, Hall & Oates, Joni Mitchell, and Carole King, along with formative teenage touchstones like pop-punk and hip-hop.
Burg started writing his own songs when he got to college—a formative time in which he began to draw from the soulful music that dotted his youth and upbringing. "I started accepting the soul part of my influence when I realized that I wasn't alone in loving it while I was in college," he explains. "That's when I started incorporating it more into my songwriting." After graduating from college in upstate New York where he studied jazz guitar and the music business, he traveled for a bit and eventually landed in Brooklyn with a few fellow graduates who now make up his management team.
Over the last three years, Burg released three EPs — Violet, Moonlight, and Fever — which he describes as "a big marking of progress in both my sound and my musical development." During that time, he's been absorbing current influences ranging from The Strokes, Channel Orange-era Frank Ocean, and Lorde to Sade and D'Angelo's neo-soul masterpiece Voodoo, the latter of which he states "helps me learn about groove and inflection."
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