Sir Chloe Party Favors

Sir Chloe unveils their debut EP Party Favors. The record is preceded by a string of recent singles: “Animal,” which has racked up more than 18 million plays across platforms, “Michelle,” which has been enjoying a viral moment across TikTok and Spotify, “July,” which Nylon praised as “Echoey indie rock about a decaying summer romance” and most recently “Sedona.”Sir Chloe is the band Dana Foote formed during her senior year at Bennington College in Vermont, where she put on a concert in lieu of a thesis. Originally comprised of guitarist and producer Teddy O’Mara, Willy Giambalvo on drums and bassist Pixel West, the group now includes Dana’s brother Palmer Foote and Austin Holmes. Together, they began to flesh out Dana’s songs, developing a sound as much inspired by The Pixies as Stravinsky.Foote’s musical background is eclectic: she taught herself guitar using Mel Bay books before taking up the piano, the mandolin, the accordion and the harmonium. At Bennington, she and O’Mara formally studied music theory and composition. Her songwriting is intimate, in the vein of St. Vincent, Lianne La Havas and Andy Shauf, and her tendency to interrogate her own pain as a means of manifesting strength places Sir Chloe in a lineage of uncompromising rock bands like Modest Mouse, Talking Heads and Blondie. Foote’s academic training shows itself, too: she cites Sofia Gubaidulina, Claude Debussy and Béla Bartók among her influences.