A perfect and peaceful Sunday morning, where the sun is low and warm, and the world is quiet and still; pull those warm bedsheets over your head and block the world out. The day bleeds into a still night, twilight lights blinking under a blue moon.
Twenty-year-old Claire Cottril’s debut album is everything we were promised and more. This album lets the listener into her inner world. Her soft and expressive voice narrates the tentative tracks scattered across this album; self-discovery and consequent expression often don’t come in loud and confident mantras, but in tender admittances. ‘You and I shouldn’t feel like a crime’, she professes on ‘Sofia’, as the bridge breaks down into staticky-synth; the delivery is raw and earnest. ‘Bags’ – the standout track on the album due to its textured instrumentals and narrative power – sounds like a song you’d listen to alone in the car, when you’ve driven somewhere just to sit and ruminate on the choices of your life (in the best way possible, of course).
Just imagine it. Clairo jotting down the drafts of these lyrics and singing them into the empty space of her childhood room. It’s for the listener alone to absorb over a few plays of the album. It’s not the type of album to play at a party – or even the after-party. It’s for when everyone’s gone home and you need something to wind your mind down before you finally go to sleep.
Haiku Review
Melancholic, as
Dreary days go by with the
Mist settling lowerÂ
‘Immunity’ by Clairo is available to stream on Spotify and Apple Music.
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