Headache
artist
Headache is a collaboration between the writer and poet Francis Hornsby Clark and the producer Joseph Thornalley, who records as Vegyn. Its spoken word is voiced by AI, over trip-hop and downtempo electronic music. Clark writes the words and Vegyn produces. The project started as a joke. Clark keeps a low public profile, and Headache is his only public credit.
The debut album, The Head Hurts but the Heart Knows the Truth, came out on PLZ Make It Ruins in May 2023. The single "Miss Understood" followed in December 2023. The second album, Thank You For Almost Everything, was released on 17 October 2025, with lyrics by Clark, production by Vegyn, mixing and mastering by Margo Broom, and artwork by Cali DeWitt.
Headache first performed live at Klymax Discoteque in Bali before the second album came out. An autumn 2026 tour visits Istanbul (30 October), C2C in Turin (1 November), Pitchfork Music Festival Paris (2 November) and Mexico City (4 November). Eleven North American dates follow from 7 to 22 November, with amr in support, and two nights at HERE at Outernet, London, on 1 and 2 December.
