Chloe Foy is a singer-songwriter based out of Gloucester, England with a natural songwriting ability that calls to mind the beauty folk talents of Laura Marling. The reason why is pretty obvious on her staggering lovely “Flaws,” a track taken from her 2017 EP “Are We There Yet?”
She will make the trip to Austin this year for SXSW but as we all can relate, the trip is very expensive. So Foy has taken to PledgeMusic to try and raise some funds and offer some nice rewards in exchange. You can find the campaign here and if you can spare the money, help her get to SXSW.
You can grab a taste of “Flaws” below and find the whole EP available to stream or buy at Bandcamp.
I just love this track from Sharon Van Etten American singer songwriter based in Brooklyn a track from the album “Are We There” on Jagjaguwar Records. with enough rasp and sorrow in her voice to keep from sounding too pure or confident the songs draw you in. Her songs have a heavy use of harmonies with back up singer Heather Woods Broderick, Van Etten was traning to be a Sommelier working at a new York wine store for three years before becoming a full time musician. Sharon Van Etten is a massively strong songwriter who’s only realized the power of her words and melodies over the course of recording them. So not only does she become more sure of herself with each go-round, she gets better at expressing both that assuredness and the complicated, difficult, timid emotional places that inspire her.
In the music video for “Your Love Is Killing Me,” Sharon Van Etten paints a devastating portrait of unrequited love, one that ends with the same kind of quiet shock that has come to be a defining element of VanEtten’s music. As such, she has, over the course of four acclaimed albums, become one of our foremost documentarians of love and all its horrors (and, occasionally, its pleasures), a role she continues to inhabit on her most recent offering Are We There. Van Etten has grown increasingly more ambitious with each release, with “Are We There‘s” most startling growth manifesting itself in her preternatural confidence, one that previous releases hinted at but never quite fully realized. That degree of conviction renders Van Etten’s already powerful songwriting even more affecting, making “Are We There” a listening experience rare in both its vulnerability and its certainty, an experience not unlike the roller coaster relationships about which Van Etten so candidly sings.
The lyrics on Sharon Van Etten’s fourth album don’t always make for easy listening. “He can break me, with one hand,” she falsettos during one chorus, whereas Your Love Is Killing Me features broken legs, cut tongues and burned skin. As with her previous album “Tramp” these revelations feel intimate and shocking, and gain further power when Van Etten appears to fall back under her lover’s spell.”
If there’s one album this year that’s guaranteed to leave you emotionally devastated, it’s Sharon Van Etten’sAre We There. The singer-songwriter throws all her pain into her gorgeous fourth album, resulting in rousing musings on a crumbling relationship and the anguish of wondering whether it was all her fault. which mixed her folkier roots with more powerful dynamics, though here she branches out with synths and organs (see “Taking Chances” and “Our Love”). But the real soul-crusher comes with “Your Love Is Killing Me,” on which she repeats, “Burn my skin so I can’t feel you / Stab my eyes so I can’t see.” Despite all the pain and doubt, Van Etten sounds more confident than ever on Are We There, adding more strength to her vocals without sacrificing the delicate beauty that makes them so haunting. You might feel like a wreck after listening, but the roller coaster ride is worth the price of admission.
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