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Approved: Charlø
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 4 October 2022
Life doesn’t always go as planned, does it? Just as Charlø – real name Charlotte Reed – was starting to pick up some interest from the music industry last year, she broke her back in a skiing accident.
She used the months of convalescence that followed wisely though, by teaching herself music production through YouTube videos and learning new instruments. Now she re-emerges with her debut single ‘Numb’, a deeply personal song driven by percussive synths that rise and fall underneath her voice.
“’Numb’ was written about a vivid memory of a traumatic event that only recently came rushing back to me”, she tells The Line Of Best Fit. “I have been reeling trying to figure out if this thing actually happened or not ever since”.
“On one hand, if I let myself believe it was true, I think I’d break down. So I’ve remained in this sort of undecided state of numbness towards the memory. Since it was a memory of something that happened so long ago, I realised I can kind of choose how I want to relate to it moving forward”.
“My ultimate goal is to write songs and produce for other artists, but I still end up writing a lot of songs that are so personal to me that I want to share”, she adds. “Since moving to LA, I feel like I’ve been falling forward into each new opportunity, and at some point, I just thought maybe I can do both, why not?”
Watch the video for ‘Numb’ here:
