While Claud‘s third album continues in a similar vein to their previous releases — hooky, vibrant, disarmingly confessional — they did remark that they were trying for a lighter tone, adopting the attitude that one can struggle with heavy experiences but still have some fun.
The resulting Me and the Music was co-produced by Grammy winner John Congleton (St. Vincent, Alvvays, Wallows) and, for the first time, Claud themself. It begins with one of the album’s handful of potential outsider anthems, “Gay Witchcraft.” It’s also one of the record’s more melancholy entries, but one with a bright chorus that encourages a partner with: “Don’t you know/That I’m so completely/In it deeply/Don’t go easy on me.” The next song, the bouncier…

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