Charlie Hugall

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Charlie Hugall
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Background information
Origin Brixton, London, England, United Kingdom
Genres Rock, indie rock, punk rock, dance, pop
Occupation(s) Record producer, songwriter, mix engineer
Years active2009–present
Website charliehugall.com

Charlie Hugall (born 1984) is a British music producer, songwriter and mix engineer. He has produced and mixed records for Florence and the Machine, Ed Sheeran, Halsey, Swim Deep, Kaiser Chiefs, Lucy Rose, Crystal Fighters and others.

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Career

Starting his career as a studio engineer at The Dairy Studios in Brixton, Charlie made use of downtime in the studio to invite artists he found to record. Through this period he came to prominence as a producer with Florence + the Machine's song "You've Got the Love". [1] It spawned a second spin-off single featuring Dizzee Rascal "You Got the Dirtee Love".

Charlie also worked with Florence Welch to produce "My Boy Builds Coffins" from her debut album Lungs and to mix and produce the bonus disc on the second album, Ceremonials .

Soon after his work with Florence + the Machine, he began work mixing and adding additional production to Crystal Fighters' – Star of Love , Delilah's – From the Roots Up (which debuted at number #5), [2] in addition to production work for The 2:54, The Maccabees, Alex Winston and the Kaiser Chiefs.

In 2013, Hugall was awarded Breakthrough Engineer of the Year by the Music Producers Guild. [3] That year, he produced Swim Deep's critically acclaimed top 10 album Where the Heaven Are We before working on Dry The River's second album Alarms in the Heart in 2014 and writing and producing Halsey's song "Haunting" off her hit debut album Badlands in 2015.

In response to the Paris bombings, in Dec 2015 he produced the Florence & The Machine collaboration with The Maccabees honouring the victims of the attacks with a cover of the Eagles of Death Metal's "I Love You All the Time"

Songwriting and production credits

TitleYearArtist(s)AlbumCreditsWritten withProduced with
"My Boy Builds Coffins"2009 Florence + The Machine Lungs Producer--
"You've Got the Love"--
"Are You Hurting the One
You Love?"
--
"You Need Me, I Don't Need You"2011 Ed Sheeran + - Jake Gosling
"Grade 8"Additional producer- Jake Gosling
"Honey"2012 Swim Deep Where the Heaven Are We Producer--
"The Sea"2013--
"She Changes the Weather"Co-writer/Producer Austin Williams -
"King City"Producer--
"Intro"--
"Francisco"--
"Colour Your Ways"--
"Make My Sun Shine"--
"Red Lips I Know"--
"Soul Trippin"--
"Stray"--
"Crush"--
"Maway"2014 Dan Croll Sweet Disarray -Joe Wills
"Make Up Your Mind"2015 Florence + The Machine How Big, How Blue,
How Beautiful
- Kid Harpoon
"Pure Feeling"--
"Haunting" Halsey Badlands Co-writer/Producer Ashley Frangipane, Robert Tortelli, Christopher HugallHeavy Mellow
"Hurt Me" Låpsley Long Way Home Vocal Producer- Låpsley, Rodaidh McDonald, Tourist
"Love is Blind"2016- Låpsley, Rodaidh McDonald, ROMANS
"Swim" Fickle Friends You Are Someone Else Producer- Fickle Friends
"Something in the Water"Tom GrennanLighting Matches--
"Old Songs"Something in the Water EP--
"Sweet Hallelujah"Lighting Matches--
"Praying"2017--
"Giving It All"Release the Brakes EP--
"This Is the Age"--
"Patience"--
"Found What I've Been
Looking For"
Lighting Matches--
"Watch Me Read You" Odette To A StrangerCo-writerGeorgia Sallybanks-
"Collide"Georgia Sallybanks-
"She"2018 Fickle Friends You Are Someone Else Producer- Fickle Friends
"All My Friends"2019 Dermot Kennedy Dermot KennedyCo-writer Dermot Kennedy -
"Love is Back"2020 Celeste Not Your Muse Producer-Josh Crocker

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References

  1. "Charlie Hugall Discography". Discogs. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
  2. "Archive Charts". Official Charts . Retrieved 3 April 2013.
  3. "Charlie Hugall wins Breakthrough Engineer of the Year". Gotham Producers. Retrieved 3 April 2013.