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Claud is everywhere billboards, magazines, online blogs and Times Square, just to name a few. “I’m not jaded about it. I’m more grateful that I have all that,” Claud says over a Zoom chat.
The rising artist released their debut album,
Super Monster, in February to critical and commercial success. They simultaneously became the first artist to debut out of Saddest Factory Records, the label from Grammy-nominated artist
Phoebe Bridgers. To say Claud’s future looks bright would be an understatement.
21-year-old Claud Mintz comes from Chicago but stays in New York and has family that they visit in Los Angeles, so their perspective on situations shifts with their surroundings. “I talk so much about where I am in my songs because I’m always in a different place,” they say. This adds to their creative process, as Claud is an artist of great depth who finds power in fragility. Listeners of their debut,
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