Clover wrote “Anymore” on the day her father was headed to jail. “I woke up, and my heart immediately sank,” she recalls of that day. “I was sad, afraid and angry.”
The New Jersey-based singer/songwriter had spent years being the rock for her dad. “I was trying to help him shift the trajectory of his life, but no matter what I said, the downward spiral continued,” she says.
Thankfully, it’s been pretty much the opposite for Clover. Upon graduation from Bard College in 2018, she accepted an invite to participate in NBC’s The Voice, ducking out prior to the premiere, dispirited by efforts to control her image. Following the 2020 release of her debut single, “This Love,” Clover powered her way through the pandemic as an issue-oriented nomad/troubadour, busking all over the country with partner Dani Sundream and selling her own sustainable merch. In 2022, she co-wrote “Power” for Milck, which was featured on ABC for Women’s History Month. She played at New York City’s Women’s March and, last year, conquered her biggest stage yet at the Levitt Pavilion SteelStacks in Bethlehem, Pa.
All of which brings us to Atlas, Clover’s self-released debut EP. Available May 30, it covers an awful lot of stylistic ground over its five tracks, from atmospheric folk to straight-up pop to simmering neo-soul to the spare piano balladry of “Anymore.”
“Something shifted in me,” says Clover, referring to the breakthrough she finally had in with her father. “For the first time, I was putting up boundaries. It was so damn hard. How do you push someone you love away, even when you know it’s absolutely necessary? ‘Anymore’ is everything I’d come to terms with within myself. It’s the truth, and it’s raw. It’s my declaration of surrendering the weight of someone else’s problems. It’s my path to freedom.”
We’re proud to premiere Clover’s “Anymore” video, filmed by Sundream and edited by Clover.
—Hobart Rowland
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