.clairo drops 'Closer To You,' the raw, vocoder-stricken second cut from her forthcoming debut album:
, out Aug. 2, a striking, autotune-stricken track titled “Closer To You.”
The single, which the musician refers to as “one of the most important songs” she made with co-producer Rostam Batmanglij, is a stark departure in sound from the album’s first single, “.” The song is led by a sharp, dark backbeat as the musician’s expressions of desire and frustration are filtered through layers of harmonizing vocoders .
“The things you do / Only make me want to get closer to you / And the things that you say / Only make me want to stay,” she sings against swelling autotune and synth. Cottrill isn’t using the autotune as a crutch, but rather a stylistic choice to emphasize the emotional rawness of the song. In an interview with
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