Pollen dust on your arms: Claud’s indie pop is getting too big for the bedroom.
“The little crumbs I hate cleaning up / But I will, for you”, sings Claud Mintz at the beginning of SUPERMODELS to acoustic guitar and dreamy keyboard texture. It’s often the little things, the little gestures that count. Claud also deals with these. The non-binary artist from Chicago talks about dirt under your fingernails, pollen dust on your arms or an exchange of views about Regina Spektor.
But of course there are things of the heart behind it – disappointment, longing, shaky love affairs, crumbling friendships. To put it simply: “I want you back.” This time, Claud emphasizes the words with more brutal means than on the bedroom debut SUPER MONSTER: “Dirt” or “Glass Wall” hit the hip grunge-pop notch and the thundering guitars in “The Moving On” are suitable for shoegaze.
In the atmospheric ballads “Spare Tire” and “Screwdriver”, on the other hand, you think you can feel the presence of Claud’s label boss Phoebe Bridgers. “Wet” is a perfect dark disco pop track that Christina and the Queens didn’t write. Some songs on SUPERMODELS turn out to be very well-behaved. But Claud has finally outgrown the bedroom pop label with album number two. And a lot seems possible.