Charlie Hugall (born 1984) is a British

music producer A record producer is a recording project's creative and technical leader, commanding studio time and coaching artists, and in popular genres typically creates the song's very sound and structure.Virgil Moorefield"Introduction" ''The Producer as ...

songwriter A songwriter is a musician who professionally composes musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly in the classical music gen ...

and

mix engineer A mixing engineer (or simply mix engineer) is responsible for combining ("mixing") different sonic elements of an auditory piece into a complete rendition (also known as "final mix" or "mixdown"), whether in music, film, or any other content of a ...

. He has produced and mixed records for

Florence and the Machine Florence and the Machine (stylised as Florence + the Machine) are an English indie rock band that formed in London in 2007, consisting of lead vocalist Florence Welch, keyboardist Isabella Summers, guitarist Rob Ackroyd, harpist Tom Monger, and ...

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, Halsey,

Swim Deep Swim Deep are a British indie pop band formed in Birmingham, England. The band currently consists of Austin Williams (vocals), Cavan McCarthy (bass), James Balmont (keyboards), Robbie Wood (guitar), and Thomas Fiquet (drums). Swim Deep were fo ...

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and others.

Career

He learnt the craft of sound engineering at The Dairy Studios in

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, where he first came to prominence with Florence + the Machine's song "

You've Got the Love "You Got the Love" is a song by British songwriting team The Source featuring American singer-songwriter Candi Staton. Originally released in 1986, the song was remixed and re-released in 1991, 1997, and 2006. It reached number three on the UK ...

". It spawned a second single featuring

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You Got the Dirtee Love "You Got the Love" is a song by British songwriting team The Source featuring American singer-songwriter Candi Staton. Originally released in 1986, the song was remixed and re-released in 1991, 1997, and 2006. It reached number three on the UK ...

". Charlie also worked with

Florence Welch Florence Leontine Mary Welch (born 28 August 1986) is an English singer, the lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the indie rock band Florence and the Machine. The band's debut studio album, ''Lungs'' (2009), topped the UK Albums Chart and wo ...

to produce "My Boy Builds Coffins" from her debut album ''

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'' and to mix and produce the bonus disc on the second album, ''

Ceremonials ''Ceremonials'' is the second studio album by English indie rock band Florence and the Machine. It was released on 28 October 2011 by Island Records. The band started working on the album in 2010 and finished it in 2011. The standard edition of ...

''. Soon after his work with Florence + the Machine, he began work mixing and adding additional production to

' — '' Star of Love'',

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's — ''

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'' (which debuted at number #5), in addition to production work for The 2:54, The Maccabees,

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and the

. In 2013, Hugall was awarded Breakthrough Engineer of the Year by the

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. That year, he produced Swim Deep's critically acclaimed top 10 album '' Where the Heaven Are We'' before working on

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's second album '' Alarms in the Heart'' in 2014 and writing and producing Halsey's song "Haunting" off her hit debut album ''

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'' in 2015. In response to the Paris bombings, in Dec 2015 he produced and mixed the Florence & The Machine collaboration with The Maccabees honouring the victims of the attacks with a cover of the

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’s “I Love You All the Time”

Songwriting and production credits

References

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