About this site

Songs With Something Underneath is where Gareth Clements documents his songwriting life.

Gareth writes and releases music under the name CLEM or Clemster. He lives near London, works in data and systems during the day, and writes songs in the hours after his daighter has gone to bed and before he needs to go bed! His catalogue runs to nearly fifty original tracks spanning UK electropop, dark pop, festival EDM, confessional ballads and party anthems — most of them built around a simple principle: the song sounds like one thing and means something else.

This site exists for three reasons. To give the music a home. To document the process honestly, including the parts that don't work. And to think out loud about songwriting craft in the age of AI tools.

There is no subscription, no community, no algorithm to worry about. Just songs and the occasional note about how they got made.

If you want to get in touch, please do so through the contact page.

The music

Released tracks are available on all major streaming platforms and on YouTube. New songs are added as they're finished, which is fairly often.

The AI question

Yes, AI is part of the process. Claude (and others!) support concept development and lyric analysis. Suno generates the music from the finished lyrics. The creative decisions, the ideas, the emotional architecture of each song, those are Gareth's. The AI does the craft interrogation and the sound production. It's a collaboration, and this site is partly about what that collaboration actually looks like in practice.