Charlotte Cornfield

Cornfield's debut EP, It's Like That Here, was released in 2008.[9]

Cornfield's EP Collage Light was released in 2009.[10] She cites Jeff Buckley, Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell as influences, and has said the EP deals with themes of "people coming and going and drifting apart".[1] Reviewing the EP in Hour, Dave Jaffer wrote that "Cornfield is destined for good-to-great things, and new EP Collage Light is a harbinger of that."[11]

Cornfield's debut album Two Horses was released in October 2011.[12] The album was recorded over a four-month period and features Cornfield on guitar, bass guitar, drums and piano as well as vocals.[12]

The critic Bob Mersereau of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation praised the album as "a strong collection of songwriter tunes backing by a solid rock groove", and wrote "there's a definite spark about" Cornfield.[13]

Cornfield's second album Future Snowbird was released in March 2016 through Consonant Records.[14] The album was recorded live at Rooster Studios in Toronto, Ontario, was produced by Don Kerr and features appearances from Tim Darcy of Ought and Johnny Spence of Tegan and Sara.[14] Cornfield said of the album: "I think the sound of the record is more upfront than Two Horses. It's got a kind of raw quality."[3] The album's lyrics were inspired by Cornfield's time spent living in Brooklyn, New York City.[3][4][9][14][15][16] Music videos were released for "Big Volcano, Small Town"[17] and "Time Bomb".[18]

The writer Sean Michaels praised "Mercury", writing that "Her songwriting is ravenous. Even here, in uneasy happiness, [Cornfield] sounds like she will wolf down her life as fast as she is able. The windfalls, the crises, the concerts, the chance encounters – she'll sprint through them all, collecting burs."[5] Michaels also named "Mercury" as one of his favourite songs of 2016.[19] Sarah Greene, reviewing Future Snowbird for Exclaim!, wrote that Cornfield "usually opts for unlikely, slightly awkward rhymes and metaphors, her oddball lyrical choices walking the line between heartfelt and goofy but always quotable, with songs often landing in delightfully unexpected places" and concluded that "Kerr got some lovely organic performances out of Cornfield and the band, who sound like they lived in the songs a while before they recorded."[4] Liam Prost of BeatRoute Magazine wrote that Future Snowbird was "substantially more listener friendly" than Two Horses, but argued that "her narratives just don't land nearly as hard as she proves herself capable of on her older cuts".[7]

The Shape of Your Name was released on April 5, 2019, through Next Door Music, an imprint of Outside Music. The album features collaborations with Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning and Charles Spearin of Broken Social Scene, Shawn Everett and Leif Vollebekk. A music video for "Andrew" was released in January 2019.[20]

Cornfield said of the ideas behind the album: "With this record I was really thinking about space and breath, and I feel like it came from a meditative space of reflection. My life up to that point had been a lot of push, push, push, but then of a sudden I was in my late 20s, feeling a little more settled, a little bit wistful, and I think that really informed the songwriting process. I was not afraid of going slowly, and so there are a lot of slow jams and I’m alright with that."[8]

Reviewing The Shape of Your Name for Exclaim!, Kaitlin Ruether described Cornfield's songwriting as "biting, lucid and nourished." Ruether praised "Storm Clouds", "Andrew" and "Up the Hill" for their "electricity and emotion", and concluded "The Shape of Your Name has an elegiac quality to it: there is plenty of mourning within these songs, but there are also rays of a bright future."[21] Writing in Pitchfork, Joshua Copperman noted that the album focuses "on the patience and reflection required for relationships with others", praised Cornfield's delivery and songwriting as "authentically conversational", and concluded that the album "benefits from not trying to be a masterpiece. Instead, it stays small and approachable, a reward reserved for those paying attention."[22] The Shape of Your Name was longlisted for the 2019 Polaris Music Prize[23] and named by Exclaim! as the fifth-best folk or country album of 2019.[24]

In My Corner, a four-track EP featuring two original songs alongside covers of Lucinda Williams and Yo La Tengo, was released in March 2020.[25]