Claire Rousay - A Little Death (Album Review) - Stereoboard UK

Claire Rousay - A Little Death (Album Review) - Stereoboard UK

Photo: Katherine Squier Fittingly, given its Halloween release date, ‘A Little Death’ is one of those rare albums that you don’t really notice at first, before it creeps up on you and worms its way inside your body and, finally, your soul....

claire rousay: a little death

The title a little death is a powerful one and rich with (mostly sexual) associations, but it turns out, it’s also kind of mundane, being the name of a bar in San Antonio that claire rousay frequented around the time she began the process of making this album back in 2021. Only apparently mundane, though, because at that point, rousay was struggling with alcoholism and a little death in its final form is a product of her hard-won sobriety. After…