Super Monster (★★★★☆) is full of clever, insightful songs all about the messy process of figuring yourself out.On the surface, most of the songs are about the various stages of relationships, from longing to heartbreak, but it becomes apparent quickly that the objects of affection in the songs amount to side-pieces in Claud’s own journey of self-discovery.
The album’s first single, “Gold,” released to acclaim late last year, reflects on that point where a relationship began to go south and the realization that it was the other person that was the problem, but Claud invariably returns to what the relationship and its breakdown said about them.As fraught and complicated as growing into oneself can be, Claud is certainly having a lot of fun.
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