Me and the Music [CD]

Claud - Me and the Music [CD]

Does everything have to feel so heavy all the time? Claud Mintz fights with this question all the time. The 10 songs on their rich and resplendent third album Me and the Music find the 27-year-old Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter-producer grappling with that question and coming up, triumphantly, with something close to an answer: Things can be heavy, but that doesn't mean you can't have fun.

Me and the Music is Claud's first album in three years, since 2023's acclaimed Supermodels. Lead single "She Doesn't Love Me" is, in many ways, the core of the album—a light-feeling song about what it's like to be queer and trans in America in the 2020s. The album was produced by Claud and John Congleton (Alvvays, St. Vincent), and features "The Legend," produced with longtime collaborator Dan Nigro (Olivia Rodrigo, Chappell Roan).