On this second record, Sir Chloe (the moniker of musician Dana Foote and also the name of her band) invite the listener into their twisted sweet-sour world with \u201cThe Hole,\u201d a song that someone too heartsick to get out of bed would relate to, performed with vocals and music that are sincerely sweet and cheery!<\/p>\n
Sir Chloe\u2019s music takes inspiration from various genres such as grunge, punk, and folk, which are then blended together with Foote\u2019s secret musical sauce: a tight band; Foote\u2019s fabulously sharp vocals that know exactly when\/how much to be dulcet, defiant, or deranged; and production that lends to the music a sound that is polished but tactfully coarse. These ingredients make a track like \u201cThe Hole\u201d sound so upbeat and lively, yet have a palpable undercurrent of woefulness. Similarly, \u201cEyes,\u201d another jangly gem where the music is brisk and bright, is also where Foote sings in the sweetest tone: \u201cI believe I\u2019ve finally died, on my knees for so many nights, prayed to no one, \u2018take my life\u2019,\u201d in a lovely bittersweet contradiction.<\/p>\n
The album has a pep in its step in how the music is played and recorded, and how the vocals are sung. So, even apart from the naturally perky numbers like \u201cComplicated\u201d and \u201cTake It,\u201d a quiet one like \u201cCandy\u201d with just a guitar and vocals, is like a calming fire that crackles often enough that you\u2019ll pay attention, as you hear the bite in each guitar note played and the drama in Foote\u2019s vocals.<\/p>\n
The album also has a punctured heart and a lunatic brain that is evident on \u201cHoly,\u201d which has a headbanging rhythm with virtuoso drumming\/cymbal-work and a post-punk goth rock production aesthetic, while Foote sings with fiery dispassion. \u201cKiss\u201d too, has an \u201cI am wounded and mad\u201d rage with its grungy gloominess, where its meaty and mucky but catchy guitars are dark, while Foote sings words like \u201cwanna be you when you say, I want it, it\u2019s mine,\u201d ending the song with \u201cI don\u2019t want love I want revenge\u201d with an unhinged temperament.<\/p>\n
Judging from how fine the album turned out, the band has harnessed this craziness\u2014which is omnipresent here\u2014to compliment their cerebral musicianship and singing, instead of mindlessly succumbing to its chaos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":35445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[11168],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-47341","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-sir-chloe","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/47341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/47341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47341"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=47341"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=47341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}