Cloetta Paris

By coincidence or not, Cloetta Paris began attracting attention in online circles around the middle of 2007, roughly a year after similarly styled Swedish synth pop sweetheart Sally Shapiro emerged as the enigmatic face (and voice) of the late-2000s Italo-disco renaissance. It's usually a gross oversimplification to draw such a strong comparison between two artists, and Paris is no mere also-ran, but the resemblances are striking: a wispily thin, nearly expressionless but endearingly tender voice; the indie-pop-meets-electro aesthetic of emotionally fragile lyrics and wistful ...