CLOVES pays homage to "Tom's Diner" and tackles social anxiety on new single "Sicko"

Having shared comeback single "Dead" last year, CLOVES reveals "Sicko" which takes a deeper diver into the artist's struggles with mental health, a theme which ties her forthcoming conceptual record together.

“Sicko is my best way of painting the tunnel vision, panic scramble of social anxiety,” CLOVES explains in the press release. “It’s like a living, breathing second personality in your brain. One which makes you question everything you do and say in social situations, worried that others don’t like you for it. It's exhausting, not only keeping you from enjoying the present but also fucks with your relationships.”

Incorporating the melody of Susanne Vega classic "Tom's Diner", CLOVES tells us "[it's] one of those great melodies that everyone knows, even if you don’t know why [you know it] you do."

"Melodically it feels like a nursery rhyme and nursery rhymes are the darkest songs of all, they’re hypnotic but deceiving, most of the time being about death, so it made perfect sense to pair [it] with what we already had lyrically written for "Sicko", she continues.

At the end of last year, CLOVES also shared a cover of Charli XCX and Christine and the Queens' "Gone" as a treat for her fans to tide them over until the release of "Sicko".