LA-based songwriter Claude Fontaine arrived on the pop-reggae scene back in 2019 with a self-titled debut that reached back to the genre’s rocksteady roots while occasionally drifting into a broader psychedelic pop framework over the course of the record’s 10 tracks. Five years later and Fontaine is returning with that album’s follow-up, La Mer, which branches off into tropicália and yé-yé while exploring Claude Fontaine’s hints of bossa nova in more detail.
On the record’s latest single, these global influences materialize in a unique way. “Green Ivy Tapestry” takes its name from an art piece Fontaine encountered while staying in England which ultimately informed the lyrical direction the recording would take. “‘Green Ivy Tapestry’ was written in a petite 18th century hotel room in London,” she explains. “The curtains and bedspread atop the dark mahogany bed were made from a green ivy tapestry, and the love stories were woven deep.”
Such romantic conjecture pairs perfectly with the sultry tune, which helps furnish the new album’s broader seaside-utopian vision. Check out the track below, and pre-order La Mer here ahead of its September 6 release via Innovative Leisure.
