Listen: Clare Maguire – Paper Thin

Clare Maguire delivered her first new track in three years back in May with the alluring ‘Changing Faces’.

The song gave us strong hints as to where the singer-songwriter might go next with her sound, scaling back the more obvious pop overtones to reveal a moody ambient take where the spaces become as important as the breathless vocal Maguire’s really grown into.

‘Paper Thin’, which dropped earlier today, finds the 25-year old meshed between the kind of gently resonating piano line we’ve come to know well since James Blake and a production static that recalls some of David Sylvian’s more experimental work. It works a charm, with the Maguire of 2013 reframed in a lush, dramatic gild.

Listen to ‘Paper Thin’ below.