Chloe Navarre has never been one to stay in the lines, and on their newest single, “Analemma,” the artist embraces the mystique that has always swirled around their artistry. Available on all major streaming platforms, “Analemma” isn’t a track per se, it’s an orbiting experience, one that shuffles along like the slow sweep of the sun itself, bending sound toward shadow and light.
Described as a love letter to the sun, the single exudes a distinct psychedelic vibe. Guitar strums unfurl with the slow, deliberate froth of heat waves hitting pavement, the decay of each note patiently dying into space. The textures are spacy and elastic, somewhere between a late-night jam session and an intergalactic signal beamed in from an uncharted galaxy. It’s an intimate yet infinite sound, a feeling that you get when you hear it that there is some supreme, playful divinity.
The secret to much of that alchemy can be pinned on Ry Mohon, the guitarist, producer, songwriter, and self-described short king who steers the production with a deft, off-kilter touch. Mohon doesn’t so much play guitar here as pilot it like a shuttlecraft, charting its path through malediction effects and reverbs that transform the instrument into something that falls somewhere between six strings and a star cluster looming at the periphery of perception.
The track focuses on a touching repetition of the title “Analemma.” Spoken in a voice so close to Nosferatu muttering to himself after lights-out, the word feels equally like ritual and menace. The decision renders the song quite ritualistic, as if Navarre is inviting his audience into a solar séance where beauty and dread momentarily interlock.
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