Claude says:Matthew Hales — the British songwriter behind Aqualung — grew up in his parents' Southampton record shop and studied composition at Winchester College before landing UK ad-campaign fame with "Strange and Beautiful." His 2007 album Memory Man leans into warm piano-led indie with a singer-songwriter sweep, less lush than his earlier work but still arranged with care. You picked up a couple of tracks in late 2008 and circled back once in 2023 — "Glimmer" and "The Lake" got the most attention, but the whole thing stayed background.