Claude delivers existentially anxious art-pop on 'a lot's gonna change,' her debut album. Read bigugly's review:
.” As arbitrary as the entrance to adulthood can be, the years Claude calls forth often serve as a foundation-constructing period whose aftereffects reverberate throughout one’s entire adult life, seemingly without fail. In the face of such turbulence, Claude responds with her first LP and American Dreams Records debut,, a collection of wise, meticulous art pop that depicts 20-something existentialism with gravitas but without melodrama.
The album’s lead single and opener, “twenty something,” is the jazzy thesis statement that showcases Claude’s grasp on art pop. Its instrumentation delicately unfolds around Claude’s announcement and interrogation: “So tired of being too nervous / to say what’s on my mind / I’m a twenty something / Don’t you think it’s about time?” Complete with a gentle, jazzy saxophone line acting as a sonic foundation, “twenty something” is liable to get stuck in one’s head.
Claude deploys the piano to inject a little hope into “meet me,” a brilliant ballad promising stability in a subject whom she can meet with regularity and around whom she can unburden herself. There is nothing quite like having a reliable, even if infrequent, home base in a counterpart as you carve a path forward. Emotionally, the coin flips on “i think i’ll pass today,” a fairly straightforward depression anthem with an ironically lush orchestral backing.
Prior to the closer, the record’s consistency is a strength, particularly as Claude expands her dream-pop sensibilities to include smooth jazz and coldwave elements to bolster that hazy altered-state sensation. The existential quandaries that are central to these songs never grow too heavy-handed, either.
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