claire rousay is a San Antonio-based experimental artist. Her singularly detailed music incorporates field recordings, voicemails, percussive sounds, and other textural elements to magnify intimate emotions amidst the mundanity of everyday life. She released A Softer Focus in 2021 via American Dreams, and in 2023 signed with Thrill Jockey to release her first album for the label, sentiment, the following year. She has also issued two records with her best friend and fellow Texas-based experimentalist Mari Maurice, An Afternoon Whine in 2021 and Never Stop Texting Me in 2022.