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Genius Annotation

Chloë is the opening track of the album Chloë and the Next 20th Century. The song has a “debonair delivery with an amnesiac effect of a film without phones or calendars, suggesting the framework of an ambitious novel”(Pitchfork). The character study track alludes to “soundtracks and vistas of Cary-Grant-era Hollywood romantic thrillers”(Consequence Sound) and features “old-timey horns before launching into a 1920s-esque big band track”(Paste Magazine). The tune takes you to a “jazz age tea dance in the Blackpool Tower ballroom beamed in via Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles”(The Scotsman).

Central to Chloë is the “relative lightness of touch, and FJM’s decision to remove himself from the centre of the story”(DIY Magazine).

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