Chelsea Cutler crafts introspective EDM as a vocalist, songwriter, and producer whose audience expanded initially via guest appearances alongside acts including Kidswaste and Kasbo before she released material under her own name. Ultra Records finalized a contract with her during 2017, prompting the release of the two-part mixtape series Sleeping with Roses I and II ahead of her first proper album, the 2020 set How to Be Human. When I Close My Eyes reached listeners the next year. Further standalone tracks such as “Men on the Moon” and “Stay Anything” surfaced across 2022 and 2023.
Born in Westport, Connecticut, Cutler experimented with music from childhood yet only turned toward recording and production once she reached age 17. Beginning in 2014 she posted online renditions of material by artists ranging from the Tallest Man on Earth to ODESZA, then, while a freshman at Amherst College, offered the original composition “Anything for You” near the end of 2015. “Wake Up” appeared the following year just as EDM and indie electronic projects such as Kidswaste, Louis the Child, and Kasbo began featuring her vocals, collectively drawing millions of streams. In 2017 her own cuts “Your Shirt” and “Sixteen” connected with an expanding listenership, securing her a deal through Ultra Records, a Sony affiliate. Her Ultra debut “You Make Me” arrived that August and registered on Billboard’s viral chart at the same moment Cutler, then a junior and soccer-team member at Amherst, resumed classes; Snow in October, her opening EP, followed one month later.
A busy 2018 yielded the two Sleeping with Roses mixtapes, while 2019 brought the collaborative brent EP with Jeremy Zucker. Additional solo releases such as “Lucky” and “I Was in Heaven” continued through the balance of that year, setting the stage for How to Be Human, which rose to number 23 on the Billboard 200 upon its 2020 arrival. Brent: Live from the Internet, drawn from livestream performances, appeared the next year alongside her second studio album When I Close My Eyes. Cutler examined interpersonal subtleties on the independent 2022 single “Men on the Moon,” then launched 2023 with “Stay Anything” and “I Don’t Feel Alive” in preparation for her third long-player.
