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‘Gender and sexuality on a spectrum – I started to unravel all of that’: musician Claire Rousay on dating, depression and Jeff Tweedy
Following acclaim for her affecting sound collages, the Texan’s new album flips her old ‘emo ambient’ to ‘ambient emo’, inspired by Young Thug and Sparklehorse – and an unexpected show of charity from the Wilco frontman
Over the past few years, Rousay has drawn accolades from the likes of the New York Times and NPR for her largely wordless ambient music, which incorporates intimate personal recordings into its affecting sound collages. Sentiment, her first album for adventurous Chicago label Thrill Jockey, is more like ambient emo: strings, synths and recordings of everyday life gracefully slide to the background as Rousay’s heavily AutoTuned singing and simple guitar playing take centre stage. ‘There’s a way to connect to this music differently than anything else I’ve done.’ Photograph: Mike BoydShe started working on the material that would become Sentiment amid the loneliness of the pandemic – which also coincided with the end of a six-year relationship – sitting on her bed in San Antonio and drinking Coors Lights.
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