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The red-hot artist—who may be Kate Bush’s niece— recorded in legendary Allaire Studios. | By Sarah Carpenter Clairo recently purchased a home in rural Massachusetts. She collaborated with producer Jack Antonoff (a frequent Taylor Swift collaborator) on Sling and Lorde contributed vocals to a few tracks (from New Zealand). The album is a departure from her first LP, her bedroom pop stylings taking on something more akin to Elliot Smith’s gentle and intricate brand of emo and dabbling in jazz and disco instrumentals. A long way from creating a viral music video from her laptop for a song she wrote in a day (“Pretty Girl”), Clairo is solidifying herself in the music industry with surprising power in her gentle vulnerability. And she can thank Allaire Studios for getting it all started.

Queer Gen Z bedroom-pop artist Claire Cottrill (Clairo) recorded her sec ond studio album Sling at Allaire Studios near Woodstock, NY, and it’s in many ways inspired by the recording site. Allaire— where David Bowie, Norah Jones, My Morning Jacket and many more have laid down tracks—encourages recording artists to stay in-residence in the Tudorstyle 1928 estate on 20 acres of mountaintop with expansive panoramas of the Ashokan reservoir. Clairo told Rolling Stone the recording locale inspired her to write new parts of the album: “Seeing mountains every day when you’re making music, I suddenly felt the urge to put a horn on a song.”