Chloe Leanne Slater (born 2003) is an English singer-songwriter based in Manchester. Writing about social and political issues, she has been releasing music since 2023 and has issued two Extended play: You Can't Put a Price on Fun, and Love Me Please.
Early life
Chloe Leanne Slater was born in 2003 and raised by a single mother in
Bournemouth, England.
Inspired by
Taylor Swift, she started playing
acoustic guitar at the age of 13, and then
electric guitar.
Slater started gaining an interest in politics at 17 during the 2019 United Kingdom election campaign.
At age 18, she moved to Manchester to pursue a music degree, which she later dropped out of.
Career
Slater released her debut single, "Sinking Feeling!", in 2023. She started promoting her music on
TikTok, and the clips for her second single "24 Hours", a "scathing takedown of influencer culture," went
Viral video on the platform.
Her debut
extended play (EP),
You Can't Put a Price on Fun, was issued in May 2024 via Stolen Juice, an imprint of
AWAL.
She issued a follow-up,
Love Me Please, in February 2025.
Artistry
Some of Slater's most popular songs have been
Protest song, inspired by
Sam Fender and
Declan McKenna's political music.
She occasionally uses
satire in her lyrics.
The intention of her music is to engage young people in social and political issues, and to create a "stepping stone to start to think more about the world that we live in."
Her second EP explores themes of
Influencer,
feminism, and
social class.
Other musical acts Slater admires include Fontaines D.C.,
Wolf Alice,
Arctic Monkeys and
Bloc Party.
Discography
Extended plays
| You Can't Put a Price on Fun (Stolen Juice via AWAL, 23 May 2024) |
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| Love Me Please (Stolen Juice via AWAL, 4 February 2025) |
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