Chloy Foy's 'Complete Fool': Where love ends and healing begins
- blondevibrations
- Jun 14
- 4 min read
On her latest release, 'Complete Fool', Chloe Foy delicately navigates the furthest corners of her soul, treading gently through emotional depths with a remarkable grace.
There is a tenderness threaded through every track Foy delivers, it feels like a gentle warmth that deepens the world she’s built with an essence of whimsy. The opening two songs, 'Complete Fool' and 'Drifting' welcome us into the center of a magnified moment. Everything feels so carefully arranged to bring us close to her heart as she exposes it to us, with the vocal arrangement of the harmonies in ‘Complete Fool’ landing with such enchantment.
'Drifting' balances a delicate spotlight on strings, soft guitar, and Foy’s soothing vocals. It beautifully allows for a slow, monumental build as the track progresses. The instrumentalism becomes a guiding light for the song’s movement, making this a stunning introduction to Chloe as both an artist and a storyteller.
'Accidents' is one of those tracks where all you wish to do it put your headphones on, lay back, and allow her angelic voice to play back on a loop. This track is a true existential reflection, yet there is a serenity present that makes the song just soothe you. Lines like ‘Aren’t we all just accidents, and is it all an accident?’ question the world and the human experience, but within that longing remains this unexpected calm. Within the song, Chloe holds your hand through these moments of uncertainty of being and belonging, and whether we all fit in here when there are no answers to receive.
The following run of songs, 'Your Beauty Is Your Silence', 'I Tried So Hard To Disappear', and ‘Elephant In The Room', are some of the most luminous points in the record. We are invited into an emotional stillness, one that Chloe has captured here with aching precision. There’s a quiet power within this triad of tracks, each lingering on a different thread of heartache. Chloe allows us to explore love, despair, and the gentle act of clawing your way back from the darker places you find yourself in when life has not panned out in the expected way. 'I Tried So Hard To Disappear' speaks most directly to that feeling, where a shadow sits in the place of a happiness that once was. In each confession following the last, we witness the intimate thoughts of a diary, and Chloe battling the swirling internal thoughts as they find themselves escaping. As we reach the haziness of 'Elephant In The Room', we become entirely at one with Chloe’s inner feelings.
By the time 'Blinkers' arrives, frustration has taken to the stand. Heavier in tone, it feels like Chloe finally lets go, letting her sadness twist and turn into something louder, more electric not only in feeling but in sound. The back-and-forth outbursts of the guitar give the track a great momentum and mimics the inner chaos of Chloe herself. It feels like a powerful sonic representation of what it means to crack under the weight of your mind.
The album closes on a tender, aching note with the piano ballad 'Empires of Dust'. It serves as the kind of track that lingers long after the final note fades, and the closing lyrics 'And I fell for more of the idea of you, I fell in love with you' say goodbye with a quiet devastation. This turns the page not just to a relationship, but also to the version of herself she is leaving behind as we leave her. It holds a mirror to the most tender confessions revealed across the record, like a tribute to what has been lost and surrendering to whatever comes next. It feels like closure on this ache and, in that, a quiet beginning begins to unfold.
There is an almost unsettling stillness left as the album ends like a reckoning has happened. This feels like a true reflection of the complexities of human connection, and what it means to carry the full weight of your own feelings. Chloe clearly does not shy away from the emotional heaviness, she honours it with an unflinching honesty that makes this album hold such power.
The visuals surrounding the album truly echo its emotional depth, symbolic of something so deeply personal. Chloe taps into her world not just through sound, but through meaning. She shared with listeners the influence of tarot, and how its imagery became a mirror for this chapter of her life.
''The Fool: New beginnings, joy, playfulness, leaping into the unknown or fear of the unknown, cynicism, recklessness, stagnation''
With cards like The Fool and The Sun, she has leaned into the heavy tension between seeking joy and feeling stuck, stepping forward and standing still. She explores these ideas across the album with such nuance and there is such a genuine sense of self-discovery.
‘Complete Fool’ paints a portrait of a soul that is transforming in real-time in front of us, unafraid to show the cracks and imperfections that lie within it all. A direct snapshot of everything Chloe felt and experienced throughout this period, she forges a connection with the listener in a way that aches, and feels so truly human.
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