Having completed her debut UK and Ireland live dates during the past week, Clover County makes a stop in East London for a Rough Trade Recommends showcase at Rough Trade East this Thursday, 14th May from 7pm. She then heads to London’s Royal Albert Hall to open Saturday at the Highways Festival. More information here:
Clover County + Jack Van Cleaf + Maya Lane
On: 14.05.2026 19:00
Location: Rough Trade East
https://link.dice.fm/Ec7e421d1668
DEBUT ALBUM FINER THINGS OUT NOW, INTRODUCING HER OWN “BOOTGAZE” GENRE
LISTEN TO LEAD SINGLE “Virginia Slim.”
Read Lesley’s interview with Clover here –
Clover County’s debut album Finer Things was released to critical acclaim last September via her own label Undercover Lover Records in partnership with Thirty Tigers. Produced by Carrie K(Noah Kahan, Maggie Antone, Koe Wetzel), the album is a coming-of-age soundtrack that explores romantic, familial and platonic love with a winking charm and an observing eye. Clover shared: “Finer Things is the shoebox I keep under my bed full of old love letters and trinkets I can’t quite let go of. Its polaroids, bottle caps, and plane tickets. It’s a memorial for all the ways I’ve loved and been loved.”
These songs began when I was 18—scrawled in notebooks, half-sung into voice memos, carried with me through the years. I started recording them at 23, and at 24, they’ll start to find their place in the world. Unintentionally, they trace a timeline: from naive to knowing. Finer Things is about all the ways I’ve shown up in love and how it’s shown up for me, the fleeting and the forever. Romantic, familial, platonic. The sweetness, the sting, and the spaces in between.
This record lives naturally within the lines of country with its own indie/alternative twists— as a songwriter from the south with a love for the classics I wanted to nod to legacy artists like Dolly Parton, Shania Twain, and Sheryl Crow, while also drawing from the modern textures and tones of Hovvdy, Adrienne Lenker, Waxahatchee, Courtney Barnett, and MJ Lenderman.
Bittersweet lead single “Virginia Slim.”is also out now. Unfolding like the green rolling hills of Georgia’s Blood Mountain where she was inspired to write the song, “Virginia Slim” uses a fuzzy guitar, a painfully beautiful fiddle and the flick of a Zippo lighter to tell the quintessential ‘right person, wrong time’ story.
Speaking about the single, Clover said: “‘Virginia Slim’ is about falling for the idea of someone more than the actual person. After months on the road and too many blurred connections, I was burnt out. This song became a way to be honest with myself: about craving comfort, about romanticizing what’s in front of me and about choosing to protect a friendship instead of rushing into something I wasn’t ready for. Brad Cook helped me write the last few lines, including the most important of the whole song – ‘It’s been a long time since I’ve known love that wasn’t war.’ My two favorite instruments on this song are the Zippo lighter and the fiddle.”
Listen to “Virginia Slim” ; (WAV file)
Watch the official lyric video for “Virginia Slim” via YouTube
Clover affectionately refers to the genre she occupies as “bootgaze.” She began developing this sound as a student at University of Georgia where she cut her teeth playing house shows and college bars around Athens, GA. After the release of her debut single in 2023, she went out on the road with alt darlings and country stars like Lord Huron, Medium Build, Shakey Graves, Waylon Wyatt and Morgan Wade and has toured with Sam Barber, Willi Carlisle and Sydney Rose as well as playing AMERICANAFEST and Austin City Limits Music Festival.
Last year she released her debut EP Porch Lights which included the nostalgic single “Ultraviolet,” which peaked at #22 on MediaBase Triple A charts and is still a mainstay on SiriusXM. Now, on her debut LP, she sings about those years where she often found herself blissfully naive with a newfound wisdom of someone who’s grown up but knows she’s not done growing. Purchase Finer Things here: https://clovercounty.ffm.to/finerthingsdeluxe-uk
Critical praise for Clover County and Finer Things:
“A deliciously dreamy slice of moony indie folk that sounds like a cross between Megan Moroney and Mazzy Star.” Holleron single “Sweeter,”
“…[a] collection of Americana ballads beefed up with a bit of alt-rock toughness [and] coated with a pop sheen…” – FLOOD Magazine
“…pop sensibilities that bring to mind Jade Bird’s directness and Margo Price’s sensuality.” – NO DEPRESSION
“To say this is an impressive debut album would be an understatement… Her voice is pure cane sugar. It’s sweet but gritty and in those granulated snarls the deeper philosophical questions come to light.” – AMERICANA HIGHWAYS
“There’s a quiet wisdom in the way Clover County talks about the life experiences that led to these songs and stories that land with startling resonance. Despite being in her early twenties, she possesses an immense sense of who she is and who she hopes to become.” – ATWOOD MAGAZINE
