Emerging artist Chloe Rodgers returns with the wistful new single ‘The Algea’ out December 8th through Crowds & Power
"Chloe Rodgers is the youthful face of alt-pop you should already be getting to know." - WONDERLAND
"Rodgers’ stated admiration for Thom Yorke is evident in both her lithe and immaculate vocals and her layered lyrical musings. Much like the Radiohead frontman, she walks a thin line between connected peace and crushing anxiety with "Faces."" - UNDER THE RADAR
"Chloe Rodgers takes a different approach to pop music in "Faces," her otherworldly vocals opening up a portal to a fascinatingly serene new world." - REFINERY 29
"Chloe Rodgers returns with glacial new alt-pop release 'Faces'. The Nottingham riser made her mark with debut single 'A Delphian Lullaby', a truly creative piece of pop songwriting. New single 'Faces' spins her sound in a different direction, with its ethereal, electronic-laden production and breathless, whispered vocal. Out now, the zero-gravity project is an experiment in tone and subtlety, with Chloe moving between fond memories and bad. Somehow managing to execute the split between this, it's an emphatic statement, one that underlines her blossoming creativity." - CLASH
"Enchantingly expansive and packed with so much promise for the future, this ethereal odyssey from Nottingham-based Chloe Rodgers is something special indeed that demands your attention right from the off. The first thing that hits you is the celestial electronic atmospherics as her gorgeously whispered vocals remembers fond and bad memories. Beautifully orchestrated and cinematic in scope with added strings and horns, Faces is at its heart a masterpiece in intention and creativity. " - RECORD OF THE DAY
"Chloe Rodgers caused quite a buzz with her debut single “A Delphian Lullaby” (which we had the pleasure of premiering the video for), and seems set to increase that hum around her with new single “Faces”, which further expands the breadth of her sound." - BEATS PER MINUTE
LISTEN TO ‘THE ALGEA’ HERE
With her work with Scandinavian collective Twenty Committee and her own solo material currently lapping up praise on the likes of CLASH, Wonderland, Under The Radar and Record Of The Day, Nottingham-based singer Chloe Rodgers has now returned to unveil her brilliant new single ‘The Algea’.
Marking her third release of the year after ‘A Delphian Lullaby’ and ‘Faces’, ‘The Algea’ sees her continue that distinctly bright and soaring aesthetic she is quickly developing a reputation for. Filled with pulsing strings, sweeping production, and her own dreamy vocals penetrating every subtle bar, this new release showcases her as an artist not only on the rise, but one looking to dominate the new music circuit as well.
Speaking about the new offering, she said, "The Algea is named after a group of Greek goddesses that are basically just mega depressed. I was definitely being over dramatic giving it that name. It was just about being a naive teenager looking for love but getting used by older dudes that knew exactly what they were doing"
Born and raised in Nottingham – a part of the United Kingdom that she still enjoys living in – Chloe is lucky enough to have the kind of disposition that makes you swoon at the impossibility of her existence within the confines of what it is to be a modern day pop star.
With influences that stretch from PJ Harvey to Billie Eilish, she notes Thom Yorke as her biggest inspiration, explaining “You know immediately that his lyrics have hidden depths,” she suggests, “but the deeper you dig, the further you are from getting to what they might mean.”
Chloe first came to public attention after accidentally winning Notts X Factor – she was interning at a local record label and was put up for an audition by her boss – which resulted in pecuniary financial advantage, a series of local gigs and a presence on YouTube that brought her to the attention of music producer and composer, Anders Källmark and Crowds And Power record label.
“She was so effortlessly talented”, says Källmark, “that we thought she must be performing a series of covers. But she wasn’t!” Kallmark subsequently included her as the main vocal component in Twenty Committee, an innovative, contemporaneous project featuring a rotating cast of songwriters and performers bearing a loose resemblance – at least in conception - to that ever-elusive, 1980s abstract phenomenon known as This Mortal Coil. “Chloe is absolutely integral to Twenty Committee and puts her own spin on everything we do together,” adds Källmark.
With a string of future releases at the ready, Chloe Rodgers looks to have a bright solo career on the horizon. She is most definitely one to watch in 2021.
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