SoundSubterra Sessions 007: Chloe Tang and the Songs That Speak to Her Here and Now

Chloe Tang takes over SoundSubterra Sessions with a playlist built around an era of her life, making room for the different emotions that can exist inside the same chapter.

A week can feel like an era. So can a year. For Chloe Tang, the difference is not a set number of days, but the songs and emotions that come to define a particular stretch of life.

For SoundSubterra Sessions 007, the artist shares Songs that speak to me here and now, an 18-track playlist that resists the idea that a collection has to settle on one genre or mood. Instead, it follows the less orderly way music becomes part of our lives: different songs finding their place alongside one another because they meet us in the same moment.

“I tend to create my personal playlists based on eras of my life,” Chloe told Nefarious Supply in her submission. “There aren't strict rules on how long an era can last...it can be anywhere from a week long to a year, but usually the songs represent an array of emotions I have during any given era.”

She described this particular selection as “a chaotic mix of emotions that I've been working through recently.” That is the invitation into the session. These songs do not need to tell one story in the same way. They are part of the same period because Chloe chose to bring them together.

A playlist with room to move

The session opens with Stormzy and RAYE’s “The Weekend,” then moves through RATED R’s “BODIES,” Chxrry’s “Ride 4 Me,” and ORR’s “1 + 1.” Genia’s “10 Out Of 10” and Lolo Zouaï’s “Baggy Jeans” follow, before Charli xcx’s “Rock Music” arrives at track seven.

Those first choices give the listener several directions to follow without presenting any one of them as the playlist’s defining sound. Chxrry and ORR sit in the same opening stretch as names listeners may already know, an opportunity to spend time with their music rather than just pass through a list of familiar artists.

The middle stretches the frame further. Karri’s “Get It Together (Spotify Singles)” and Larissa Lambert’s “Blood On The Strings” lead into Drake’s “DOG HOUSE,” featuring Julia Wolf and Yeat. Later, Justin Bieber’s “All That Matters” sits directly before Crazy Town’s “Butterfly.” It is a sequence with room for different musical histories, not a claim that each song belongs to the same scene or serves the same purpose.

That distinction matters. Chloe has shared what this collection represents to her, but she has not assigned an emotion or a personal story to each track. The pleasure of listening is in following the choices she has made, while leaving those meanings open.

The artist behind the selection

Chloe’s own work also comes from an artist comfortable moving between different parts of her identity. In a 2024 interview with Name 3 Songs, she spoke about moving through folk, rock and pop phases as she worked out how to express herself. She described the pressure to define her sound and the time it took to stop overthinking who she was supposed to be.

That history gives useful context to the playlist, though it would be too easy to call these 18 songs a map of her influences. This is a selection of what speaks to her during a particular era, not a list she has presented as the blueprint for her own records. The difference leaves room to meet Chloe as a listener, rather than treating every choice as a clue to her creative process.

We previously featured her in XTC: Underground Frequencies Vol. 002, alongside “Photoshoot,” her collaboration with Yvng Jin. The track grew out of an open verse challenge, according to the materials Chloe shared with Nefarious Supply. Where that feature introduced her through her own music, this session turns the focus toward the records she has chosen to live with.

In a 2025 conversation with Remixd Magazine, Chloe spoke about how everyday interactions can become material for songwriting, even when the people or encounters involved do not seem life-changing at the time. It is a useful way to think about the title of her playlist, too: “here and now” does not have to mean a single dramatic event. It can describe the accumulation of moments that make a period recognizable once you look back at it.

Let the era be what it is

Toward the end of the session, Crazy Town gives way to sam02’s “little bit,” Don Toliver’s “No Pole,” and A$AP Rocky’s “STAY HERE 4 LIFE,” featuring Brent Faiyaz. The final selection is Doechii’s “girl, get up.,” featuring SZA.

There is no need to force a neat ending onto the collection. Chloe’s own description makes room for feelings that have not necessarily resolved, and the title locates the playlist in the present rather than pretending to know what comes next. What she has given us is a snapshot, one she can return to when this era looks different from a distance.

For now, start at the beginning and follow the selections in order. Somewhere between a familiar song and an artist you have not spent time with yet, you might find a record that speaks to your own here and now.

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