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TRACK REVIEW: Bitter’s Kiss “Love Won’t Make You Cry”

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To close out the week, we have a new track for you from Bitter’s Kiss. Bitter’s Kiss is singer/songwriter Chloe Baker. Despite the choice of band name, there’s nothing Bitter about her music. On the single “Love Won’t Make You Cry” Baker showcase both her vocal and songwriting abilities. It’s a melancholy love song that will ultimately leave you feeling hopeful. The corresponding video is set in Paris. Filmed in black and white, it’s romance at its core, two star-crossed lovers trying to figure it out in the City of Lights. A pop-infused ballad, fans of Regina Spektor will enjoy Bitter’s Kiss.

A little background on the up and coming star: Chloe grew up in a musical home. Her father maintained a studio and a guitar collection, ideal for any young singer-songwriter with dreams of one day crafting their own art. The deeply personal and romantic tunes, such as “Love Won’t Make You Cry” act as an audible diary for Baker. Deeply connected to her roots, Baker’s 2015 self-titled was created in collaboration with her father, who helped record and produce Bitter’s Kiss. Still a student with blossoming potential, she currently attends High Tech, an arts academy in North Bergen, NJ.

Watch the video for “Love Won’t Make You Cry” below.

ALBUM REVIEW: Bitter’s Kiss “Self-Titled”

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Chloe Baker is a young, yet courageous artist, who isn’t afraid to say what other girls are thinking. Although she may appear to be in her innocent and naive youth (namely, still in high school), her self-titled release delivers a different persona. The album is an eight track anecdote twisting through her experiences and thoughts, but with a mature perspective. Baker, with the help of her musically brilliant father, Michael Baker, are Bitter’s Kiss: a local and favorite in Northern New Jersey.
The album starts off with the title track, her voice melodically high, pure, and polished. Her voice is classic and somewhat somber. “Love Won’t Make You Cry,” is prettily melancholy, invoking similar emotions once felt with Death Cab For Cutie’s, Plans. She released a video for “The Rope” which is just as twisted as growing up: “Do your angels keep you waiting? How much longer can you cope? There’s a quicker way to Heaven, if you can find yourself a rope.” She’s exposing the impenetrable issues of teenage depression and suicide—something that we can all say we have seen, if not been affected by. Her album isn’t all heartaches and dilemmas, although Baker can make rejection seem like a graceful way of learning. Michael Baker is an alluring guitar player, and “Lovin’ Life” shows he could put together a harmonious, electronic track as well. “Too Far Too Fast” shows she has not totally abandoned the sense of hope. “You’re gonna find out who you are, you might be a star,” she sings.
I hope for Bitter’s Kiss to thrive in the impending future, as more empowerment is needed for other young girls. I’m sure as she grows into adulthood, the music will follow.
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