Spill Tab announces debut full length album Angie, via Because Music, & shares title track and video.
LA-based French-Korean singer, songwriter, and producer spill tab (aka Claire Chicha) has shared the details of her long-awaited debut full length ANGIE alongside a video for the album’s title track.
With its lush, organic instrumentation and vintage synth textures, the single was co-produced by Chicha, John Hill (FKA Twigs, Charli xcx), and Solomonophonic (SZA, Lola Young, Remi Wolf), and premiered on Jack Saunders’ BBC Radio 1.
Set for release 16th May on Because Music, ANGIE’s 12 tracks fizz with enthusiasm, uninhibited creativity, and intricate musicianship. As evinced by her recent singles, the album spans Chicha’s variegated musical interests, joyously veering 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’ to the euphoric guitar solos of the title track.
“I love this collection of songs so deeply,” she states, “they feel more honest than anything I've created in a long time, and I'm so proud of the hundreds (thousands??) of hours that were spent writing, producing, chipping away at vocals, tightening up harmonies, re-writing bass lines, deleting entire sections, coming up with completely new ones, with all the the insane collaborators that worked
on this project.
It's really special to hear all these experiences on love and loss, rejection and passion, walking away and holding on too tight, all coexisting together in one place: a cumulation of these last few years
of my life.”
Since the release of her 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’s explosively energetic presence earned slots opening the North American leg of popstar Sabrina Carpenter’s tour, as well as an Australian run with alt-rock trio Wallows.
Chicha began work on the music for what would become ANGIE without expectation, exploring new sounds and ideas with her LA-based community of collaborators like producer David Marinelli, Solomonophonic, Wyatt and Austin and John DeBold.
“It became this beautiful experience of only following ideas that I really believed in and exploring all the musical avenues I hadn’t before,”
she says.
From the bossa nova romanticism of ‘Hold Me’ to the panning synths and chopped vocals of ‘De Guerre’, the earthy funk groove of ‘Assis’ and downtempo electronic atmospherics of ‘Doesn’t That Scare You’, on ANGIE Chicha builds a luscious, deep and often unexpected universe all of her own. It’s spill tab fully in control and free to follow wherever the sound goes next – all we need to do is listen.
Raised by a French Algerian composer father and a Korean pianist mother, Chicha spent her early years immersed in music at her parents' post-production studio, absorbing jazz, classical, and other diverse influences. Following a childhood spent between LA, Thailand, and Paris, where she picked up guitar and soaked in a variety of musical traditions, Chicha developed a distinctive sound blending raw-edged guitar confessionals with anthemic pop hooks.
Her work has earned her four 'Hottest Record' accolades from BBC Radio 1, where she has also performed live in session at the iconic Maida Vale studios and been honoured multiple times as Future Artists Tune of the Week and Next Wave. Additional support has come from Lauren Laverne on BBC 6 Music, as well as a playlist feature from Apple Music 1.