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Claire Chicha aka Spill Tab 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. Following the 2019 release of her intimate and infectious debut single Decompose, Claire has evolved her Spill Tab project through three EPs: 2020s synth-pop influenced Oatmilk, 2021s playful, uptempo Bonnie, featuring Gus Dapperton and Tommy Genesis, and 2023s co-produced, sonically-intricate Klepto, which gleefully meanders from the Hiatus Kaiyote-influenced jazz freakouts of Creme Brûlée! to the guitar-chugging thump of Splinter. Live, meanwhile, Spill Tab has been tapped for her explosively energetic presence to open the North American leg of popstar Sabrina Carpenters tour, as well as touring through Australia with alt-rock trio Wallows. With Pink Lemonade, opening single from her debut album Angie , Spill Tabs freewheeling sound finds its fullest expression, harnessing this onstage experience and recorded experimentation with her bass-weight and pitched-up vocals. Here we find Chicha only ever chasing that weird thing, fizzing with an infectious enthusiasm and intricate musicianship. The best songs come from writing the main idea in a day, as its so instinctual, she says, such as Pink lemonade recorded from a clip taken out of a 40-minute jam that we then chopped and spliced.
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