Bloodless by Claire Cronin is out now! Watch Marcos Sánchez's spectacular music video for "Feel This." 12 Nov 2021
"Claire’s vocal seems to pool around you like a fog, delicate up close, yet somehow inescapable." - For the Rabbits
When she sings, you believe every word." - Pitchfork
Bloodless, the stunning new album by Claire Cronin, is out now!
Expanding upon the supernatural and metaphysical themes of Cronin's critically acclaimed 2019 album Big Dread Moon and her 2020 “horror memoir” Blue Light of the Screen (published by Repeater Books), Bloodless is a powerful work of haunted Americana by one of contemporary indie music’s finest singer-songwriters.
Like Big Dread Moon, the arrangements on Bloodless’s nine songs are stripped and sparse, Cronin’s steady electric guitar and spectral voice holding center as strings and synthesizers provide wisps of eerie atmosphere. The sound of Bloodless is both more visceral and more subliminal than Big Dread Moon, due in equal part to months of intensive home recording by Cronin and Ezra Buchla (Cronin’s husband and violist) and expert mixing by Deerhoof’s John Dieterich (who previously collaborated with Cronin on her 2016 album Came Down a Storm).
Purchase Bloodless vinyl & downloads here. (Vinyl ships November 22.)
To mark the release of Bloodless, Claire Cronin sat down with her Bloodless collaborators Ezra Buchla & John Dieterich for a Talkhouse interview. Read their conversation here.
Read Jon Doyle's review of Bloodless for Various Small Flames.
Read Trev Elkin's review of Bloodless for God Is in the TV.
Read For the Rabbits' "Get to Know" interview feature with Claire Cronin.
Chilean video artist & animator Marcos Sánchez directed this gorgeous, otherworldly music video for Bloodless single "Feel This." The visuals are truly spectacular, & a perfect complement to the mood of Claire Cronin's music.