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Songs We Love: Clarence Clarity, 'Fold 'Em'

The London producer dresses the golden age of the Easy-Bake boy band in a mishmash of contemporary electronic garb.
Clarence Clarity's self-released <em>Leave Earth </em>comes out later this year.

Clarence Clarity's chrome-plated demento-pop truly has a mind of its own. "Fold 'Em" is the most recent in a string of singles anticipating his upcoming second. Compared with his sprawling, defective gem of a debut, 2015's , he claims this one will be "more concise" — which isn't saying much, given the relentless bit-assault that is his music. As for its theme: Well, it's a "pop record from the future, set in Los Angeles as it gets sucked into the ocean," he tells NPR.

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