about spill tab:
Claire Chicha is feeling more free than ever before. The LA-based, French-Korean songwriter and producer has spent the past five years as spill tab honing a sound that is as raw-edged as it is refined, channelling low-slung guitar-strumming confessionals as well as the earworming melodic hooks of anthemic pop to produce a heady and distinctive mix. “I’m confident following the weird thing to find my voice,” Chicha says. “I’m only ever making music that I’m really passionate and excited about – every song is my favourite.”
Following the 2019 release of her intimate and infectious debut single “Decompose”, Chicha has evolved her spill tab project through three EPs: 2020’s synth-pop influenced Oatmilk, 2021’s playful, uptempo Bonnie, featuring Gus Dapperton and Tommy Genesis, and 2023’s co-produced, sonically-intricate Klepto, which gleefully meanders from the Hiatus Kaiyote-influenced jazz freakouts of “CRÈME BRÛLÉE!” to the guitar-chugging thump of “Splinter”. Live, meanwhile, Chicha has been tapped for her explosively energetic presence to open the North American leg of popstar Sabrina Carpenter’s tour, as well as touring through Australia with alt-rock trio Wallows.
On her remarkable debut album, ANGIE, Chicha’s freewheeling sound finds its fullest expression, harnessing this onstage experience and recorded experimentation to joyously veer from the bass-weight and pitched-up vocals of glitchy opener “PINK LEMONADE” to the grungy distortion and sultry French-language lyrics of “De Guerre”, euphoric guitar solos of the record’s title track and quiet vulnerability of “wet veneer”. Here we find Chicha only ever chasing that “weird thing” to produce 14(?) tracks of uninhibited creativity that fizz with an infectious enthusiasm and intricate musicianship.
