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‘I desperately wanted friends, and flings, and to understand myself’: Clairo on making one of 2024’s best albums
After her second album anguished about new fame, the US artist self-released the soulful Charm, an exercise in learning to let go of control and embrace the unknown
Two years later, her debut album, Immunity, was widely praised for its maturity and poise, with Cottrill writing and producing all the tracks (with input from Vampire Weekend founding member Rostam Batmanglij). She’s more relaxed and more commanding than ever before, perceptive about the shifting sands of desire, but also sanguine and often playful – and Charm has resonated, with nearly 20 million people streaming her on Spotify each month, and Guardian critics voting it at No 4 in our albums of the year poll. Leon Michaels, who produced this record, has been working with the same people since he was 13 [Nick Movshon, Homer Steinweiss, Marco Benevento, and Dave Guy] so they’d come in and write their own parts.
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