Latest Release
- 9 OCT 2024
- 1 Song
- Charm · 2024
- Immunity · 2019
- Nothing Happens · 2019
- Immunity · 2019
- Glue Song (feat. Clairo) - Single · 2023
- Charm · 2024
- Sling · 2021
- Charm · 2024
- 4EVER - Single · 2018
- diary 001 - EP · 2017
Essential Albums
- With the DIY video for her 2017 track “Pretty Girl”, Clairo became the premier case study for how the internet can instantly blow up homespun artists. But with her full-length debut album, the Massachusetts indie-pop phenom betrays a bold artistic vision that can no longer be contained by her bedroom walls. Co-produced by the artist with ex-Vampire Weekender Rostam Batmanglij, Immunity achieves just the right balance of focus and fuzz, expanding Clairo’s sonic vocabulary with neo-soul vibes, jazzy piano lines and boom-bapped drum breaks while framing her most brutally honest tracks—like the break-up lament “Bags” and same-sex-love anthem “Sofia”—with gritty intensity and blown-out distortion. Throughout the album, Clairo tries to reconcile her desire for independence with her need for intimacy, an emotional tug-of-war that reaches its zenith on the momentous closer “I Wouldn’t Ask You”, a stark, defiant piano ballad that cedes to the warm embrace of its ecstatic chillwave outro.
Music Videos
Artist Playlists
- Her laidback, quiet gems are subtle jams.
- Bedroom pop mastermind Clairo selects tracks for Untitled.
- Clairo shares the sounds and songs that shaped her new LP, Sling.
- Listen to the hits performed on the blockbuster tour.
More To Hear
- We’re still not immune to this song’s charms.
- The artist talks third album, Charm.
- The singer tells the story of her 2nd album.
- The singer shares music that brings her joy and inspiration.
- The singer-songwriter shares her self-isolation playlist.
- The singer joins Matt in the studio and brings her own playlist.
More To See
About Clairo
Singer-songwriter Clairo brought viewers straight into her teenage bedroom with the slapdash video for her 2017 lo-fi breakthrough, “Pretty Girl”. The song, built on a simple keyboard riff and drum beat, is tongue-in-cheek but deep in its relationship analysis, while the video shows her in all her greasy-haired, half-awake glory. To Clairo, who was eventually named an Up Next artist by Apple Music, this sort of intimacy and vulnerability is what music is all about: “There’s no point in making a record if it isn’t personal,” she told Apple Music. As far as the sound itself, the artist, born Claire Cottrill in 1998, was exposed to a wide range of musical influences as a kid—Al Green from her dad and Cocteau Twins from her mum. By age 13, she was recording and performing covers, and eventually started playing DIY university shows near her parents’ home outside Boston. Soon after “Pretty Girl” and songs like the woozy, synth-soaked meditation “Flaming Hot Cheetos” started racking up streams, Clairo teamed up with former Vampire Weekend star Rostam, who co-produced her 2019 full-length debut, Immunity. Led by airy guitar-pop confessions “Bags” and “Sofia”, the album preserves her homespun charm while upping the indie rock fuzz, soulful grooves and throbbing electro beats. Through it all, Clairo’s warm, hushed vocals make it feel like she’s sharing her deepest, darkest secrets just with you.
- HOMETOWN
- Atlanta, GA, United States
- BORN
- 18 August 1998
- GENRE
- Alternative