LA-based artist producing electronic pop illuminated by striking vocal talent

By the time Claire debuted her first solo material in 2018, she had already made a name for herself as a topliner, contributing vocal features to a number of electronic and dance artists. Intent on learning how to make her own music, in the winter of that year Claire decamped to the woods outside of her hometown in Seattle and spent weeks teaching herself audio production, taking classical piano lessons, and honing her songwriting skills.

She emerged from the retreat equipped with a new technical ability, and also with her debut EP, Bodies of Water. Released in late 2018, the EP’s ethereal pop productions underscored Claire’s striking vocal talent (Stereogum, for one, noted “her sinewy vocals stay mostly to an aching whisper, but occasionally reveal powerful, Lorde-like creases”). The EP’s five tracks were also imbued with a sense of cosmic wonder—you can hear it in Claire’s voice on the single “Orbits” when she sings, “Everything you are is a miracle.”

TOURING & ENTERTAINMENT

Following the release of Bodies of Water, Claire accompanied DRAMA (Ghostly International) on a nationwide tour and supported The Midnight, Diane Coffee and Kllo on shorter runs. During these shows, she would punctuate her set with the stunning piano-and-voice ballad, “Alone Together,” regularly silencing the crowd and commanding their attention with her powerhouse vocals. She released the single “Alone Together” in fall of 2019, alongside an alternate uptempo rework of the track. In early 2020, a Yumi Zouma remix of Claire’s song “Where Do You Go?” was prominently featured in the opening scene of the Netflix original movie All The Bright Places, introducing her music to a brand new audience of fans.

NEW ALBUM The LAND BEYOND THE LIGHT RELEASES MAY 2021

How do we cope with the gulf between us and those we’ve lost? On The Land Beyond The Light, Claire’s debut full-length album reckons with questions of addiction and death, while exploring new sonic vocabularies in which to house them.

The Land Beyond The Light was initially conceived as a break-up record, largely inspired by a tough split Claire was going through in late 2019, however the tone and tenor of the writing process changed in the wake of another personal tragedy: the death of one of Claire’s close friends, an ex-boyfriend, as a result of substance abuse. When Claire returned to the songs she had written for the album, they took on a new meaning filtered through her grief.  “So many of the songs, whether they were about him when I first wrote them or not, are about him now. And this record is for him.”

The result is an achingly human document of life; an album in turns ecstatic and elegiac.  The Land Beyond the Light, is out May 21, 2021 on Cascine. Listen to the first single, “Pink Elephants” on all platforms and watch the music video here.