:: Chloe Hall - White Street

Chloe Hall

Melbourne artist Chloe Hall characterises the struggle so many acoustic artists face. Although this is her first album (after an EP release in 2002), she’s been performing for a dozen years and has been winning performance and songwriting awards since the age of 14. On first impression, Chloe seems like a sweet voice, sprinkled with sweet lyrics about “dandelion wishes”. But it’s her maturity and experience that ultimately sets her folk/pop apart. ‘White Street’ exposes a vulnerable and thoughtful artist, whose voice wavers over a hushed piano on I’ll Be Gone and candidly admits “Sometimes I wish I didn’t have a dream to follow” on Amy. Citing an early love of Irish folk music as an influence, this is evident as Chloe draws uncanny moments of resemblance to Irish influenced American folk singer, Nanci Griffith. A polished acoustic album, produced by Greg Arnold of Things of Stone and Wood fame, Chloe has described ‘White Street’ as coming back to who she really is and it certainly shows.