THE BEHOLDER

Description

Claire Dickson (she/her), the Brooklyn-based singer, songwriter, and producer praised for her “striking – wordless – lyricism in a shifting ambiance” and whose voice “[draws] the listener into a complex and tumultuous world, where anything seems possible, filled with… fascination and mystery,” releases her highly anticipated second album, The Beholder, via New Amsterdam.
In The Beholder, Dickson presents herself as “the spectator”: an archetype she formulated during the songwriting process. "The spectator radiates outward and forward. They observe, they love, they dream. Their self-esteem becomes fractured and dreamlike, defined by their environment. Without a reliable model or repetition, the spectator feels both free, liberated, and lost and undefined. Their desire gives them a sense of expansion and freedom, even as they also feel trapped by it because a part of their self is dictated by someone else."
Through the 9 songs of The Beholder, Dickson navigates the listener through a series of ambient dreamlike landscapes using a collection of samples, found sounds, synths, layered and sparse vocals.