Chelsea Cutler

Artist ∙ Pop

Chelsea Cutler is a singer-songwriter and producer from Westport, Connecticut, who favors introspective, electro-tinged alt-pop.

∙ Cutler has had multiple songs on Billboard’s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart, led by the Kygo collaboration “Not Ok,” which reached No. 9 in 2019.
∙ She’s collaborated with Louis The Child (“Slow Down Love”), Quinn XCII (“Flare Guns”), and The Band CAMINO (“Crying Over You”).
∙ In 2020, her debut album, How To Be Human, included “Sad Tonight,” her first song to appear on Billboard’s Mainstream Top 40 chart.

March 2, 2017 at PST
Your Shirt - Single
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May 2, 2019 at PDT
brent - EP
5 Tracks
May 22, 2019 at PDT
Not Ok - Single
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January 14, 2021 at PST
this is how you fall in love - Single
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April 2, 2020 at PDT
Little Things - Single
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December 3, 2020 at PST
Stay Next To Me - Single
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June 25, 2020 at PDT
Crazier Things - Single
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July 30, 2020 at PDT
Crying Over You - Single
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April 3, 2017 at PDT
Found You (feat. Chelsea Cutler) - Single
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June 11, 2020 at PDT
you were good to me (shallou remix) - Single
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October 14, 2021 at PDT
When I Close My Eyes
13 Tracks
February 8, 2018 at PST
You're Not Missing Me - Single
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May 17, 2018 at PDT
better off (filous remix) - Single
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October 5, 2017 at PDT
Snow in October - EP
6 Tracks
April 2, 2020 at PDT
Little Things - Single
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June 7, 2018 at PDT
Sleeping with Roses
8 Tracks
December 1, 2022 at PST
Let Me Down - Single
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March 30, 2017 at PDT
The Shine (feat. Chelsea Cutler) - Single
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January 27, 2022 at PST
the lifeboat's empty! - Single
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November 10, 2022 at PST
Men On The Moon - Single
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January 16, 2020 at PST
How To Be Human (Bonus Track Version)
16 Tracks
February 4, 2021 at PST
brent ii - EP
Labelmates Jeremy Zucker and Chelsea Cutler are kindred spirits—New York City talents and viral success stories with a shared affinity for no-nonsense songwriting through massive production, vocal runs laid bare, and simple, direct lyricism. For fans, Zucker and Cutler’s history is well documented: They met at a frat party in Connecticut, reconnected over a shared manager, and signed to Republic Records, eventually leading to 2018’s “better off” and 2019’s brent, their first collaborative EP. The songs were warm and affecting—piano and acoustic ballads abound. The second chapter in an ongoing story, 2021’s brent ii, recorded in the woods of upstate New York, continues the narrative. “Call it a sequel or a follow-up,” Zucker tells Apple Music. “Honestly, we were just trying to do better.” “It was a given that we were going to do it again,” Cutler adds. “Conceptually, it was a little bit more cohesive and a little bit more on brand.” Below, Zucker and Cutler break down brent ii, track by track.

this is how you fall in love
Chelsea Cutler: “The way we wrote this song was pretty unique for both of us. We were actually recording those little vocal ad-libs at the beginning of ‘parent song,’ and Jeremy was like, ‘Do whatever comes naturally to you.’ I did one take singing, ‘Oh, my love, side to side,’ and we kind of fell in love with the line. We dropped everything that we were doing and sat down at the piano and started building a whole song around that concept of slow dancing and being in love.”
Jeremy Zucker: “That was the last song that we did for the project. It was the missing piece. Chelsea and I really envisioned it as this archetypal wedding song.”

parent song
Cutler: “This song is really just about the ways that our relationships with our parents change. I know the last two or three years for me, being fortunate enough to start a career early and gain a little bit more independence early on has created a really interesting shift in the dynamic of my own relationship with my parents.”
Zucker: “You're an adult, and a lot of times your parents don't really see you as an adult. You're struggling to express how much it doesn't mean that you love your parents any less, but that you don't want to spend every second with them.”

emily
Zucker: “We had both been in very dysfunctional relationships—and it's not a specific story, and Emily isn't a specific person, but we ended up using the name. We weren't going to call somebody out. Chelsea's middle name is Emily, so I was like, 'Oh, that's kind of cute.'”

brooklyn boy
Zucker: “This is definitely a quarantine-pandemic song. A lot of the song is me building up this fantasy in my head of how I envision my life to be, and feeling frustrated that I can’t be that…I can't even go outside. Also, in the first post-chorus, there's a voice that says, 'Do you think the stars wish on us?' That's my really good friend Lauren [who records under the name Lo Nightly]. I was feeling that way one night, and she texted me that question. I was like, 'That's the corniest but sweetest thing I've ever heard.' I asked her to record a voice memo and send it to me, and it made it into the song.”

the stars
Cutler: “For the first time in my life, I felt like there was validity behind the notion of wanting forever with someone—or the idea that you keep waking up every day and you still are surprised that you want to be with this person. In previous relationships, it was really easy to dismiss those things we all love to hear as just being words. We love hearing and saying things like, 'Oh, we're meant to be. It's written in the stars.' You don't really mean it until you mean it, and I think it was the idea of, 'Oh, maybe I really am starting to believe in this type of stuff.'”
5 Tracks
October 12, 2023 at PDT
Stellaria
You can practically feel Chelsea Cutler’s fingerprints while listening to her third full-length album, Stellaria. While organizing recording sessions for the project, Cutler involved herself in every aspect of the process, from pre-production to mixing and engineering to post-production. During sessions in New York, Los Angeles, and in California’s Big Bear, Cutler and her collaborator Kevin White built the album from scratch, agonizing over every loop, guitar line, drum sound, and bass note. The result is both epic in ambition and daringly intimate.

Cutler, who was born in Connecticut, continues the pop experiments she began creating on earlier records like 2021’s When I Close My Eyes. On “I Don’t Feel Alive,” she loops a mesmerizing vocal line before introducing galloping acoustic guitar and stomping percussion. She sings of stomach aches and lucid dreams, her hometown, and the urge to run away and buy a house upstate. It’s a journey of self-discovery, a yearning that hits most acutely when she sings, “If I could, I’d wake myself up when I am somebody that I’m proud of.” You can hear the melancholy in her delivery as she reckons with this last idea, the struggles of growing up. It’s equal parts heartbreaking and hopeful, the idea that something better is out there, if only you have the courage to look for it.
15 Tracks
November 8, 2018 at PST
Sleeping with Roses II
8 Tracks
February 15, 2018 at PST
Out of Focus - Single
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