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Charm
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After taking
Clairo
out of the bedroom and into the studio on 2021's orchestral folk/pop record
Sling
,
Claire Cottrill
did another re-think for her 2024 album
Charm
. She headed to the studio with
Daptone Records
heavy
Leon Michels
and his crew of musicians and resurfaced with a batch of laid-back soul-meets-soft rock tracks that show off
Cottrill
's feathery vocals and gently hooky songs to great effect. Where she sometimes sounded overpowered by the musical backing on
, here she's completely in charge as her keyboards and vocals slot in perfectly with the inventive work of the group. Never has she sounded as assured as on the bubbling "Sexy to Someone" or the almost insistent "Add Up My Love," and it's nice to hear that she isn't happy just sticking to her strong suit of wistful ballads. Of course, there are a ton of those here and they sound wonderful too. She delivers songs like the dreamy ¿Slow Dance,¿ the sleepily
Stereolab
-inspired ¿Echo,¿ and the sweet treat ¿Nomad¿ -- which opens the album in understatedly dramatic fashion -- with understated grace, and the mix of pianos, vintage synths, electric keys, and live instrumentation is pitch perfect and full of surprises. The bleating clarinets, breakbeats, male backing vocals, clicky drum machines, and flutes all dart into the mix to give splashes of color while the team of
and
Michels
judiciously drops dashes of echo and reverb to give the sounds a hint of a psychedelic vibe. This kind of vibrant attention to detail is a big change from her previous work, where it was easy to tune out as the music became aural wallpaper instead of truly engaging the listener. There's no problem with that here. Her music sounds like that of
Tennis
, but
has found a way to inject plenty of heart, soul, and low-key energy into a sound that can often lack all three. Too many times, artists who try this kind of backward-looking, blatantly vintage approach end up sounding like stiff museum pieces, but that's not the case with
. Thanks to the always-sympathetic production,
's dedication, and the overall strength of the songs,
has a living, breathing sound that makes for
's most inviting and easy-to-love record yet. ~ Tim Sendra
Clairo
out of the bedroom and into the studio on 2021's orchestral folk/pop record
Sling
,
Claire Cottrill
did another re-think for her 2024 album
Charm
. She headed to the studio with
Daptone Records
heavy
Leon Michels
and his crew of musicians and resurfaced with a batch of laid-back soul-meets-soft rock tracks that show off
Cottrill
's feathery vocals and gently hooky songs to great effect. Where she sometimes sounded overpowered by the musical backing on
, here she's completely in charge as her keyboards and vocals slot in perfectly with the inventive work of the group. Never has she sounded as assured as on the bubbling "Sexy to Someone" or the almost insistent "Add Up My Love," and it's nice to hear that she isn't happy just sticking to her strong suit of wistful ballads. Of course, there are a ton of those here and they sound wonderful too. She delivers songs like the dreamy ¿Slow Dance,¿ the sleepily
Stereolab
-inspired ¿Echo,¿ and the sweet treat ¿Nomad¿ -- which opens the album in understatedly dramatic fashion -- with understated grace, and the mix of pianos, vintage synths, electric keys, and live instrumentation is pitch perfect and full of surprises. The bleating clarinets, breakbeats, male backing vocals, clicky drum machines, and flutes all dart into the mix to give splashes of color while the team of
and
Michels
judiciously drops dashes of echo and reverb to give the sounds a hint of a psychedelic vibe. This kind of vibrant attention to detail is a big change from her previous work, where it was easy to tune out as the music became aural wallpaper instead of truly engaging the listener. There's no problem with that here. Her music sounds like that of
Tennis
, but
has found a way to inject plenty of heart, soul, and low-key energy into a sound that can often lack all three. Too many times, artists who try this kind of backward-looking, blatantly vintage approach end up sounding like stiff museum pieces, but that's not the case with
. Thanks to the always-sympathetic production,
's dedication, and the overall strength of the songs,
has a living, breathing sound that makes for
's most inviting and easy-to-love record yet. ~ Tim Sendra
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