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Friday, January 14, 2022
Caitlin Cobb-Vialet creates immediate intimacy on dramatic debut album “Endless Void,” arriving May 6th. Hear powerful opener “Not Enough” now.
Young songwriter brings bits of Freddie Mercury, Kate
Bush, Regina Spektor on songs of “love, heartbreak, queerness, consent, and coming
of age.” +++
Caitlin
Cobb-Vialet as
photographed by Dawn Lu +++ PLAY, POST & SHARE Caitlin
Cobb-Vialet | “Not Enough”
[STREAM]: https://Fanatic.lnk.to/CaitlinCobbVialet-NotEnough +++ “I’m moving
to Oregon / With Noah forever / I’ll see you on Facebook / Or maybe I’ll mute
you / Whatever” Does a proper name ever pop up in an album opener? Or
the mention of a social media platform? It doesn’t matter that you don’t know
Noah (and you don’t want to know Facebook.) This sentiment is powerful and
timeless, even when expressed in the vernacular of the day. When Caitlin
Cobb-Vialet sits down at her grand piano in San Francisco, it feels like you
are sitting on the bench right next to her. The young songwriter and multi-instrumentalist creates
immediate intimacy in the opening moments of her upcoming debut album Endless
Void, arriving via War Chant
Records on May 6th, 2022. The songs are often fleeting (album opener “Not Enough” clocking at a slim two
minutes, for example), but it doesn’t matter; Cobb-Vialet imparts so much feeling in such a small amount of time. +++ Caitlin
Cobb-Vialet Endless
Void (War Chant Records) May 6th, 2022
Track Listing: 01. Not Enough (STREAM) 02. Joan To Catherine 03. Ask Me 04. The Reference 05. Collared Shirts 06. You Don’t Try 07. Useless 08. Disco Ball 09. What’s It With You? 10. Float +++ Caitlin Cobb-Vialet | About
When Caitlin
Cobb-Vialet sits down at her grand piano in San Francisco, it feels like you
are sitting on the bench right next to her. The young songwriter and multi-instrumentalist creates
immediate intimacy in the opening moments of her upcoming debut album Endless
Void, arriving via War Chant
Records on May 6th, 2022. The songs are often fleeting (album opener “Not Enough” clocking at a slim two
minutes, for example), but it doesn’t matter; Cobb-Vialet imparts so much feeling in such a small amount of time. “I’m moving to Oregon / With Noah forever / I’ll see
you on Facebook / Or maybe I’ll mute you / Whatever” Does a proper name ever pop up in an album opener? Or
the mention of a social media platform? It doesn’t matter that you don’t know
Noah (and you don’t want to know Facebook.) This sentiment is powerful and
timeless, even when expressed in the vernacular of the day. Discovered by visionary bay area producer, Jim Greer (credits include Foster The People, Macy Gray, Angelo Moore
of Fishbone), Cobb-Vialet is, actually and truly, a discovery. It even feels like
the songs must have been hidden from the songwriter herself, only being
recognized and realized as they are being performed. Cobb-Vialet’s studies at the Playwrights
Horizons Theater School at New York
University’s Tisch School of the
Arts could have something to do with the dramatic effect of that. “The studio encouraged me to be a well-rounded artist
who could write, direct, design, as well as act,” Cobb-Vialet explains. Immersed in what she describes as the “busy-ness” of
college, performing and composing as part of several productions at once, Cobb-Vialet’s musical theater
background and love of the abstract art that she was exposed to in downtown NYC
provided the experiences that she had been readied for as a child brought up in
a progressive, blended home. “I was raised by four moms,” she explains. “I had two
moms, and then when I was in the fifth grade, they separated and partnered with
two moms of kids at my school. So I have two moms, two step-moms, my brother,
and six step-siblings who I’ve known since elementary school.” As the oldest child, Cobb-Vialet was bound to be looked to in the household as an example
(many of her siblings are also in the arts), but her insights hit home outside
of her literal home, too. Especially with Greer,
who is effusive about their work together. “At our first meeting, she played me a few songs, and
right away I heard shades of so many songwriters I’ve always been a fan of,” he
remembers. “Bits of Freddie Mercury,
Kate Bush, David Bowie, Regina Spektor
– the kind of artists that make their own universe and communicate wide swaths
of emotion and beauty.” Accessing for herself these timeless artist’s knack
for accessibility is part of the inherent potential Cobb-Vialet’s songs have to connect and convey a unique young life
that, even now, isn’t often represented. “Besides love and heartbreak, these songs also explore
queerness, consent, mental illness, friendship, and coming of age,” she says. “As
an artist I would say I am non-linear, emotional, brutally honest, and
relentless.” The fleeting intimacy that takes place at the bench of
Cobb-Vialet’s grand piano... It is
quite grand indeed. Endless Void, the debut album by Caitlin
Cobb-Vialet, arrives via War Chant
Records on May 6th, 2022
preceded by the singles “Ask Me” (Feb. 4th),
“Joan To Catherine” (March 4th),
and “Disco Ball” (April 8th). Caitlin Cobb-Vialet
is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom
at Fanatic for more information. +++ Caitlin
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