Limelight
CLARISSA CONNELLY
Scottish-born artist embraces her inner child and adds an art-rock twist.
Clarissa Connelly taps into her folk roots.
PRESS/AMY GWATKIN
CHATTING FROM HER home in Copenhagen via Zoom, singer-songwriter Clarissa Connelly often returns to the theme of artistic bravery. It’s a quality she admires in artists such as Kate Bush and Joni Mitchell –and one which informs her own most recent LP, last year’s World Of Work. On opener Into This, Called Loneliness, Connelly’s voice segues between almost choral purity and otherworldly growl, while on The Bell Tower/An Embroidery, her modulating piano chords arrive after a transporting found-sound passage in which she’s heard climbing an ancient church tower to ring its bell.