Given the pair of hauntingly sparse avant-folk EPs Clara Mann released in 2021 and 2022, it’s a safe bet that the London-based songwriter’s debut full-length will be a release to look out for next month. Building on those soundbeds, Rift promises to be a deeper lyrical exploration of familiar physical spaces and the unfamiliar feelings they might make us feel over time—such as heartbreaks, which feel different each time, even if the physical pain they seem to elicit remains the same.
Such is the subject of her latest single evocatively titled “Doubled Over,” a somber meditation on love and loss and the countless emotional avenues these two phenomena tend to lead us down. “I’m not very good at talking about those feelings,” Mann confesses, “I guess that’s why I put it in a song—if I knew how to talk about it in any other way, I wouldn’t have had to write it. Love is the best and hardest thing I do, the thing I’m proudest of, and the end of it is crippling. In the end, we take the risk every time, because good love is worth it.”
Paired with the new single is a music video, which sees Mann dressing herself for work like any reasonable person might. Check it out below, and pre-order Rift here.
