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Clairo: Charm review – deeply human songs of desire and distance
Once known for lo-fi bedroom-pop introspection, the US songwriter embraces freedom to hit a breezy new high
The daydreamy, loungey Terrapin is spiked by prickly drum fills, while Echo is thick with organ for the album’s eeriest, most psychedelic moment. Juna, the R&B-adjacent centrepiece, is swooningly sexy as it finally, greedily closes the gap between Cottrill and her desires: “Come to me, ready,” she urges, with a giddiness mirrored by twinkling keys and heart-leaping vintage synths. And by hushed finale Pier 4, there’s still a chasm where closeness could have been: fingers squeak on guitar strings as Clairo muses on emotional walls which remain unbreached.
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