Music

"Art Of War" is built on a simple principle: the right move at the right moment will always outlast impulse. Drawing from Sun Tzu and applied to navigating risk, responsibility, and building long-term stability, the track speaks to anyone who knows that one mistake can set you back and every decision carries weight. Strategy here is self-protection, and patience is the weapon.

The production carries a driven backbone with a war-horn lift that puts you in that headspace from the first bar. Every line is aimed at progress, and the hook captures the whole philosophy in one shot: "Don't trust a single soul, but I invest in me."

The artwork depicts the quickest checkmate in chess, with the winning queen represented as the Golden Wolf. That image does more than represent this single. It introduces the persona behind the upcoming album Golden Wolf, with "Art Of War" as its opening statement.

"Moving Like Me" is the one that does not take itself too seriously, until you listen closer. On the surface it is a confident, dancefloor-ready track about living in the moment, keeping things casual, and staying in control. The bad boy energy is there and it is not hiding.

But underneath the bravado sits something more honest. A haunting vocal sample woven through the track pulls back the curtain on a past shaped by broken promises and trust that did not hold. The confidence is real, but so are the walls behind it.

That tension is what makes the track. The swagger is real but so is the reason behind it. This is the story of someone keeping themselves safe, told from the only angle they will allow.

"Speak It Through" comes from lived experience of growing up with ADHD in a system that was never built for the neurodivergent mind. From overstimulation and emotional dysregulation to the struggle of sitting still and fitting in, the track gives a voice to what so many with ADHD live through but rarely get to express.

Clarky first performed the song two years before its release, and the response was immediate. Audiences connected, recognised themselves in the lyrics, and came forward after shows to share their own stories. That connection became the reason for releasing it during ADHD Awareness Month.

The song speaks directly to that younger version of growing up being told off for being hyperactive, with no one explaining that the brain simply works differently. It is a message to anyone who has ever felt misunderstood or left behind by a system built for everyone else.

At its heart "Speak It Through" is a call for awareness, inclusion, and change within the system. It captures the daily weight of burnout, racing thoughts, and the pressure to conform, while also holding space for the creativity and ability to think beyond the limits others set. ADHD is not a weakness, and this track stands behind every person in the neurodivergent community who has ever been made to feel otherwise.

"Made For This" came from sitting with the doubt, looking back over the moments that quietly pulled you away from everything you knew about yourself until you barely recognised where you stood.

The track is about betting on yourself when every signal is telling you not to. Reintroducing yourself to who you are, cutting through the overthinking, the looping thoughts, and the weight of past choices that never fully leave you. It does not skip past the setback. It walks straight through it.

A reminder of who you are. Every loss, every setback, every moment that tried to stop you, all of it leading here. This is the rise.

"Jackpot" is the all or nothing statement of an artist who has put everything on the line to get here. Built bar for bar from lived experience, the track lays out the journey of navigating life without letting anything hold you back, from survival to ambition, from starting with nothing to betting on yourself when no one else would.

The writing is dense and deliberate. Every line is drawn from the grind of growing up, fighting through personal demons, and finding identity through music when everything else felt uncertain. The track namedrops everything from McQueen to Constantine, not for spectacle but to paint the picture of a mind that moves fast, connects dots differently, and refuses to slow down. There is even a nod to ADHD mid track, because that is part of the story too.

Sonically it is bar heavy UK rap designed to make people pay attention. The skill is on full display, but it is never style over substance. Every verse is working toward the same point: this is what the come up actually looks like, and Clarky is someone worth listening out for. Changing up the risk and pressing on the jackpot is not just a bar. It is the whole philosophy of the track in one line.

"The Long Story" was written and recorded in a single studio session following the passing of a family member. Everything that had been building, the hurt, the regrets, the unanswered questions, came out in one sitting and became the track.

The lyrics do not shy away from anything. Poor decisions, destructive patterns, the weight of loss, and the work it takes to break free from all of it. The writing maps a journey of confronting insecurities head on rather than running from them, and finding that music was the one place that made sense of it all.

The track closes on something heavier. A lost friend, a family member gone, and the grief of still carrying both. Those final bars make clear that this song is not just about coming through the other side. It is about doing so while still holding the weight of who you have lost along the way.

The artwork reinforces that. A solitary figure emerging from fire with a city burning behind them, moving toward the light not because the storm is over, but because stopping was never an option.