Spill Tab - Angie *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 16th May 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

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”, Spill Tab 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, Spill Tab 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.  
With “PINK LEMONADE”, opening single from her forthcoming debut album “ANGIE” , spill tab’s
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 it’s 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”.
Born to her French Algerian composer father and Korean pianist mother, Claire Chicha spent her early
childhood in the mixing room of her parents’ LA post-production studio, bringing coffees to artists as they
tracked scores for exciting new projects. “I hung out in that studio all the time until I was around 10 years
old, absorbing jazz music my dad was into and classical music that my mom loved,” Chicha says. “My mom
had a big hand in making me an adventurous kid, always trying new things from piano to harp and violin,
forever soaking up new sounds.”
At 12, Chicha’s life was uprooted as she relocated to Thailand to live with her mother’s family following the
collapse of her parents’ business after the 2008 recession. What followed was an unstable and formative few
years of early teenagedom, navigating new cultures and life changes. In Thailand, Chicha began learning
guitar to cover the Paramore and Green Day tracks she had grown to love while also becoming immersed in
Thai traditional music. After a year, she moved once more to live with her aunt in Paris and there she was

introduced to the classic sound of Serge Gainsbourg and Édith Piaf before ultimately returning to LA
following the untimely death of her father. 
“I had to become a real people person to fit in everywhere I was moving, and it immersed me into so many
different styles of music,” she says. “I went from listening to the nasal singing of Thai traditional music at
muay thai fights in Bangkok, to emotive classic French songs. It definitely informed the need to experiment
with my sound as I became more interested in making music.”
At high school in LA, Chicha joined one of the country’s foremost show choirs and realised a natural aptitude
for stagecraft and performance as she sang medleys in competitions throughout the US. Going on to study
Music Business at NYU, Chicha found a love for the alternative soul and singer-songwriting of the likes of
Moses Sumney and Bon Iver, as well as developing her own sound while spending summers interning as an
A&R at Atlantic Records and being exposed to the gamut of New York’s live music scene. 
“I was going to so many shows as an A&R intern and seeing just how much a lot of music sounded alike,” she
says. “It made me realise I wanted my music to feel different, to cut through the noise but still make
something that felt honest to me.” 
Beginning to independently release tracks, Soill Tab gradually built a loyal fanbase with the release of wistful
early numbers “Calvaire” and “Cotton Candy” and soon found herself signed to a major label. Yet, as her
career progressed through the COVID pandemic the demands of a corporate major began to conflict with
her own searching style. “My last two EPs were under contract and it felt like I was always chasing the
carrot,” she says, “I felt a certain pressure to put out tracks quickly and find that ‘hit’. It wasn’t the right
environment to truly make what I wanted.”
Ultimately parting ways with her label, Chicha began work on a new album, exploring new sounds and ideas
with her LA-based community of collaborators like producer David Marinelli, Solomonophonic, Wyatt and
Austin and John DeBold, without expectation. “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. “I’ve never been
more excited about songs and I’ve never felt like a project is more mine.” 
Writing and recording while touring with Sabrina Carpenter and Wallows, Chicha road-tested her new tracks
to see what might land best with an audience who had likely never heard her music before. “You have to win
people’s hearts as an opener and you can see what resonates and what doesn’t,” she says. “I would watch
people fall in love or not and it’s usually always the song you’re having the most fun with that does the best.
That’s what I put on the record.”
« Angie », Spill’s Tab debut album is relased on because Music and expected for May 16 th release.

1. PINK LEMONADE
2. Adore Me
3. Assis
4. Athlete
5. by Design
6. Hold Me
7. Want Me
8. morning dew interlude
9. Doesn't That Scare You?
10. Angie
11. De Guerre
12. wet veneer

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