Introducing… spill tab

spill tab is the moniker of Claire – singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, part-time tattoo artist, full-time animal lover, and oatmilk connoisseur. Working with her close friend, chief collaborator and production partner marinelli, spill tab launched her musical career, grabbing disparate feelings, sounds, tones, and textures to form her distinctive brand of bedroom-pop, with lyrics in both english and french. Reaching over 20 million streams this past year and taking the cover for Spotify’s beloved Lorem playlist, spill tab has garnered support from the likes of Billboard, Paper,  Pigeons & Planes, The FADER and was named in NME’s 100 essential artists for 2021. She also appeared in session for VEVO’s DSCVR Artists To Watch 2021 program, watch her explosive performance here.

At just eight months old, spill tab moved from Bangkok to the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles. Her Algerian father worked as a composer and played jazz saxophone and flute, whilst her mum hailed from South Korea and played piano and harp. She recalls “sitting underneath my mother’s piano while she just ripped and performed these beautiful songs.”

As a youngster, spill tab participated in Show Choir at Burbank High and listened to everything from Paramore, Young The Giant, and All Time Low to Bon Iver, Charlotte Day Wilson, and Mac Ayers. In between attending French school, music remained abundant. Following time living in Bangkok and Paris, she enrolled at New York University for college, holding down A&R internships. After a stint touring with Gus Dapperton as merchandise manager, spill tab moved back to LA to focus on crafting her own music. The result is a sound that diffuses her expansive sense of place, crafting anthems designed to punch and pacify all at once, and marking spill tab as a multifaceted and exciting addition to the New-Gen music force.

spill tab’s forthcoming EP will be the follow-up to her debut EP Oatmilk, which was released in late 2020 and features previous singles such as ‘Santé’ and ‘Name’.