Chloe Slater Shares New Single “Mother Nature’s Killing Spree”

Bournemouth born songwriter Chloe Slater is gearing up for her debut album Riot Youth, due October 9th via Stolen Juice (AWAL), and has marked the occasion with a new single, “Mother Nature’s Killing Spree”. The song imagines the planet finally striking back at the humans who’ve spent decades neglecting it, world-ending stuff on paper, but at its core is something far smaller: two people falling for each other while everything collapses around them. It’s the third cut revealed from Riot Youth, joining earlier singles “UGLY” and “Southern Youth”. I interviewed her here for Under The Radar recently, and she told me that the song grew out of a period spent reading dystopian fiction, name-checking 1984, Fahrenheit 451 and The Handmaid’s Tale as reference points for the record’s apocalyptic framing (you can read the full conversation here). Of the track, she says: “I wanted to capture that strange idea of carrying on as normal while everything falls apart around you. A time where…