Best known as one of the UK’s most successful record producers with a string of high-profile credits in his portfolio, CLIVE LANGER returned with a second album from his band project, THE CLANG GROUP when it was released on 21 February 2025 A belated follow-up to 2016’s Practice, the Group’s maiden outing for Domino Records, New Clang was recorded with Deaf School co-conspirators John Wood (aka Max Ripple) and Gregg Braden, along with former Klaxons bassist Jamie Reynolds. Written and recorded in the aftermath of Clive’s 70the birthday, New Clang is a deeply personal but incredibly vibrant album; catching Clive in reflective mode, the songs address the process of ageing and the state of the world, as well as confronting his own addiction to alcohol. “After the pandemic, the dust settled, it felt like it was time, a new time, to play again,” he explains. “Not to revisit but to write and rehearse with my Clang Group mates. We were missing a bass player and fortuitously I met Jamie Reynolds and he filled the vacancy. The songs started to flow, we were back in the groove!” “The new album is the first sober songwriting I think I’ve done in almost 50 years,” he adds. “I’ve known and accepted that I was an addict for decades… I just didn’t do anything about it. I thought I could live with it, I still enjoyed it. Someone once asked me ‘What do you do?’ I replied ‘I drink’. Anyway, making an album sober was like making an album drunk except I was sober!!” Packaged in spare black-