Alicia Clara

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Alicia Clara is a dream pop singer-songwriter working at breakneck speed — After last year’s triumphant EP Outsider/Unusual, the Swiss-Canadian artist holed up in her apartment to begin work on Velveteen, a lush and breathlessly tender four-song sequence conceived as an homage to her teenage self. Out on October 28 via Hot Tramp Records, Velveteen is a high-water mark for Clara’s young career — filled with winks and nods to childhood obsessions like Prefab Sprout and Talking Heads, whose dilapidated Long Island City loft she briefly called home before moving to Montreal. On her second EP, Clara revisits the months spent in isolation with her uncle in Trois-Rivières after years of living in big glamorous cities. Velveteen is a portal into Clara’s most inward and vulnerable self: the bedroom-self of her teenage years. She dwells on lost loves, crises of self-doubt, the longing for community, childhood dreams, the agony of accepting one's flaws, the beauty and power of coming into one’s own. Velveteen is an intricately-woven tapestry, hypnotic and poised, a midsummer night’s garden embroidered in moonlight. And while Clara’s lyrics often depict a self that is unsure and lovelorn, this EP is her most assured and alluring effort to date. – Joe Bagel