Clare Maguire delivered her first new track in three years back in May with the alluring ‘Changing Faces’.
The song gave us strong hints as to where the singer-songwriter might go next with her sound, scaling back the more obvious pop overtones to reveal a moody ambient take where the spaces become as important as the breathless vocal Maguire’s really grown into.
‘Paper Thin’, which dropped earlier today, finds the 25-year old meshed between the kind of gently resonating piano line we’ve come to know well since James Blake and a production static that recalls some of David Sylvian’s more experimental work. It works a charm, with the Maguire of 2013 reframed in a lush, dramatic gild.
Listen to ‘Paper Thin’ below.
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