Singer-songwriter Clara Mann’s evocative debut album Rift navigates the fractured environment of the in-between—those liminal spaces exposed between light and dark, growth and remorse, loss and reclamation. It is a record that makes a strong case for hope, those luminescent silver linings in the dark, and reflects the people and places that have shaped and held her—physically, emotionally, and creatively.
Raised in the Lot Valley in rural France before moving to the UK for her teens, Clara Mann was influenced by artists like Jacques Brel, Edith Piaf and Tom Waits, and has a deep love and care for songwriting. Her lyrics are vivid and visceral, and her approach to songwriting is not one of purging emotions but rather of composting them—digesting life’s experiences and cultivating them into something meaningful, tangible, hopeful.
