Claude says:King Charles is a London singer-songwriter who won the International Songwriting Competition in 2010 by unanimous vote from a panel including Tom Waits and Kings of Leon, then spent years building a folk-pop-meets-psychedelic-rock sound that never quite broke through. Gamble for a Rose arrived a year before you found it in August 2016, and for a few months you worked through its strummy, searching songs — "Choke" and the title track especially — before letting it drift. A handful of plays returned in 2021, but this one belongs to that mid-2010s chapter of British singer-songwriters you briefly explored and never quite went back to.