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Rostamknows the power of a good saxophone riff.
Henry Solomon, the saxophonist who played on the song along with two others onHaimsWomen in Music Pt.
Theres a tone that he has that you dont hear on modern records, he continues.
Rostams wisps of falsetto counter the woozy saxophone in Unfold You, making for a masterfully low-key love song.
Unfold You took years to make.
When you get that feeling, its usually right, so youve got to trust it.
As you kept working on the song, did you stay in touch with Nick about it?
And I told him that I would send him the song soon.
Luckily when that happened, he was psyched on it.
I said to myself,You really need to build a song off of this.
you should probably go to a place that makes you uncomfortable.And that was what pushed me.
The music video that you directed seems like this really spontaneous thing.
There was a part of Provincetown that Id never been to, this trail called the Dune Shacks Trail.
I all of a sudden felt this intense desire to shoot a video there.
And I had about three days to do it.
I called a DP, [and] he committed to the project.
The first day, I felt like something was missing.
She immediately said that she was down, and the next thing we knew, we were shooting.
This was on Monday at sundown, and it went really well.
The last thing I felt was like,I think we need a little bit more.
Last year you had surprise success with Clairos Sofia, that people are now latching ontoon TikTok.
Its gone viral twice.
Sofia was maybe the third song that we wrote together.
And it came so quickly, I think it took about 20 minutes.
Both of us felt this strong emotion about the song, and we didnt know what exactly it was.
Have you kept in touch?Oh yeah, were very much in touch.
We had a friendship before we had a collaboration, and so that friendship continues.
How has working on new music amid everything going on this year been?
Its not something that I can turn off, and I think that all music has its own politics.
I think that everything is political.
