When, in the fall of 2020, Claud Mintz, Noa Getzug, Josh Mehling, and Claire Cottrill released a two-song EP as a band called Shelly, it sounded exactly like what it was: four best friends from college just having fun together.

First meeting at Syracuse University—which Mintz and Cottrill, known professionally as the singer-songwriters Claud and Clairo , respectively, had dropped out of early to pursue music full-time—they’d all found themselves marooned in their childhood bedrooms: Mintz in Chicago, Getzug in Los Angeles, Mehling in Houston, and Cottrill in Atlanta, passing MP3s and Voice Memos back and forth until Shelly materialized.

From that EP came “Steeeam,” its guitar progressions perfect for dancing around in our own parents’ houses. The song became an unexpectedly viral h

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