Kevin Bronson on October 14th, 2015

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L.A.-based Scotsman Charlie Clark recently announced that Astrid — the Glaswegian guitar-pop band with which he made three albums from 1999 to 2004 — would be reuniting to make a fourth album. Which means the singer-guitarist now has all four burners on his creative stove aflame. Here’s what’s on the front one: “Sleepwalking,” the new single from Charlie Clark and the Majestic 12, the name he uses for his work with Dash Hutton and Eric McCann. Just out digitally on Clark’s newly launched Indiscretion Records (via Manimal), “Sleepwalking” is piece of epic Scottish jangle-pop for fans of anything Teenage Fanclub or C86. He explains that the song is “about a particularly grim night out in Glasgow that went horribly wrong many years ago.” The release comes amid Clark’s many other endeavors: He plans to re-release the third Astrid album “One in Four” later this year about the time his mates visit from Scotland to record the new album; his collaboration with singer-guitarist Brandi Emma, Broken Arrow, has yielded an album (currently being shopped) produced by Paul Wilson of Snow Patrol; Clark has a new solo EP written and ready to record; and he continues his duties booking music at Harvard & Stone. Whatever kind of coffee Clark is drinking, we’ll have one.

||| Stream: “Sleepwalking”

||| Previously: “The Devil’s Pulpit”