Cloves releases her sophomore album 'Nightmare on Elmfield Road' featuring her singles 'Nightmare', 'Dead' and 'Sicko'.
“The album is a series of songs that to me represent the complexity of emotions you experience when you can’t pull yourself out of a spiral—or an entire other world going on behind the eyes that only you know about” CLOVES explains. “There was a lot of genuine sadness in my life, and it’s easy to feel frustrated by your own negativity and lose all effort to care.”
“Before this album I had never worked to try and understand myself and how I process thoughts and emotions, instead I had always turned to coping mechanisms and was defensive of help, it became debilitating, I was unable to compartmentalise a real threat from a poisonous train of thought, this record is purely made from necessity, it’s taking all my darkest thoughts and feelings I have about myself and saying them, it's the start of taking their power away.”
Nightmare On Elmfield Road features CLOVES’ latest single, “Nightmare,” which was coined "Hottest Record In The World" on Radio 1's Future Sounds with Annie Mac, who said: "It's such a good song, it's so rich and your voice in it sounds incredible and the music has this depth to it, I can’t explain it, but It sounds so high quality, it's brilliant." It also includes the epic and heartfelt “Manic,” a collaboration with Hudson Mohawke, as well as singles “Dead” and “Sicko.” Throughout the tracks on this album, CLOVES crafts a glitchy, dark and dystopian atmosphere which reflects the emotional landscape she was processing as she created the album. It’s this kind of intense and at times brutal self-examination where we see CLOVES at her most vulnerable but flourishing as a songwriter.
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