Starting his career as a studio engineer at The Dairy Studios in
Brixton, Charlie made use of downtime in the studio to invite artists he found to record. Through this period he came to prominence as a producer with Florence + the Machine's song "
You've Got the Love". It spawned a second spin-off single featuring
Dizzee Rascal "
You Got the Dirtee Love". Charlie also worked with
Florence Welch to produce "My Boy Builds Coffins" from her debut album
Lungs and to mix and produce the bonus disc on the second album,
Ceremonials. Soon after his work with Florence + the Machine, he began work mixing and adding additional production to
Crystal Fighters' –
Star of Love,
Delilah's –
From the Roots Up (which debuted at number #5), in addition to production work for
The 2:54,
The Maccabees,
Alex Winston and the
Kaiser Chiefs. In 2013, Hugall was awarded Breakthrough Engineer of the Year by the
Music Producers Guild. That year, he produced Swim Deep's critically acclaimed top 10 album
Where the Heaven Are We before working on
Dry The River's second album
Alarms in the Heart in 2014 and writing and producing Halsey's song "Haunting" off her hit debut album
Badlands in 2015. In response to the Paris bombings, in Dec 2015 he produced the Florence & The Machine collaboration with The Maccabees honouring the victims of the attacks with a cover of the
Eagles of Death Metal's "I Love You All the Time" ==Songwriting and production credits==