From ‘What We Have Now,’ Clara Joy’s ‘Find Things Beautiful’ Is a Lament for Lost Feeling
Clara Joy’s new single, ‘Find Things Beautiful,’ arrives with the soft weight of revelation.
It’s the latest offering from her debut album ‘What We Have Now,’ due May 23 on Shimmy-Disc, and it threads introspection through melody with unsettling grace. Clara’s voice, bare and unwavering, moves like a confessional in the dark, revealing not just a moment of vulnerability, but a sustained unraveling.
Co-produced with Kramer and recorded over several years in Clara’s NYC apartment, the album captures the intimacy of solitude and the slow evolution of thought. ‘Find Things Beautiful’ plays like a fever dream in the shape of a pop song—gentle, yes, but also cracked around the edges. In Clara’s words, it’s written from the perspective of someone spiraling under the weight of a reality that feels foreign, even hostile. Her lyrics mirror the psychic rupture between feeling and facade, echoing the dissonance of downtown Manhattan’s posturing.
The accompanying video—Clara vacuuming the heart of Dimes Square—leans into the absurdity of finding clarity in chaos. It’s part performance, part protest, and it lands with the quiet devastation of someone who’s seen too much and is still trying to see beauty anyway.
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