The last time we saw Coco & Clair Clair in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection was April of last year, when the Atlanta rap duo headlined the 450-capacity Foundry. However, this Thursday, November 7th, they’ll be headlining Theatre of Living Arts, the legendary South Street venue that boasts more than twice the capacity. In the time since, they’ve spent time on the road playing some of the country’s biggest festivals – last year’s Electric Forest, Viva! Pomona, and Capitol Hill Block Party, in addition to this year’s Forest Hills edition of All Things Go – and dropped their second studio album, Girl, which hit shelves in August and they have described as embracing new sonic territory.
“In the early stages of our writing process we had a running joke about being pregnant with a new album and how this one felt like a baby girl, whereas our last project, [2022’s] Sexy, felt more like a baby boy. We were writing about our relationships, referencing and incorporating lyrics we had written years ago – lyrics previously put aside for being too vulnerable or confessional. We were experimenting with a style of production that felt more refined, polished, intentional, and intimate. We embraced the tension between that new approach and the characteristic qualities that propelled us early on: our resourcefulness, boastfulness, and flamboyance – all virtues of femininity and girlhood as much as they are tropes of masculinity. We listened to music that we felt exuded that same tension; Saint Etienne, Brandy, Everything but the Girl, Lana Del Rey, Club 8, Milky, and Madonna were huge inspirations both sonically and visually. We entered this new phase as closer friends and collaborators – more in tune with each other and ourselves, with newfound access to parts of our creative psyches that we hadn’t yet brought into Coco & Clair Clair. We worried less but cared more, which felt powerfully feminine.”
Coco & Clair Clair’s November 7th stop at The TLA is the fourth-to-last night of the 21-date Girl Tour, which has had them performing selections across their recent catalogue, alongside a particularly noteworthy cover. Get your tickets, “pregame” the show with Coco & Clair Clair themselves, and check out the official visualizer for Girl track “My Girl,” which the duo describe as, “An ode to your best friend, the girls you meet in the bathroom at the club, your idol, whoever it is that makes you feel on top of the world and like nobody can fuck with you. We’re not worrying about other people anymore, let’s go out, have fun, and let the beat rock.”
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