Caitlin Cobb-Vialet assumes Joan of Arc’s voice on latest single; “Joan To Catherine” video “conjures a medieval setting right out of a natural locale.”

 Upcoming debut album Endless Void reminds of Regina Spektor, Kate Bush on songs of “love, heartbreak, consent, mental illness, and coming of age.”
 
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Caitlin Cobb-Vialet as photographed by Dawn Lu
 
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Caitlin Cobb-Vialet | “Joan To Catherine”
 

[VIDEO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phphcMokW7Q
 
[STREAM]: https://fanatic.lnk.to/CaitlinCobbVialet-JoanToCatherine
 
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“Conjures a medieval setting right out of a natural locale... Cobb-Vialet’s songs create the powerful feel of desperation that confronts us all too often in life,” says music discovery website Americana Highways about “Joan To Catherine,” the second single from the upcoming album by Caitlin Cobb-Vialet.
 
“Joan of Arc was one of my quarantine fixations,” Cobb-Vialet says. I wrote ‘Joan To Catherine’ from the point of view of Joan of Arc about Saint Catherine of Alexandria, when Catherine is no longer appearing to Joan in her visions. In the song, Joan is losing faith, suddenly feeling insignificant without Catherine. Faith and religion stand in for love and purpose in this song.
 
“For this video, I was thinking about beautiful locations with a touch of a medieval vibe for a place to shoot. The colors and light of an outdoor setting kept coming up, and in the Berkeley hills there is an unmarked, secret trail into a ravine that ends at a beautiful waterfall.”
 
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Caitlin Cobb-Vialet | Live
 

03/17/2022: San Francisco, CA @ Brick & Mortar
04/21/2022: San Francisco, CA @ Make-Out Room
05/06/2022: Oakland, CA @ Starline Social Club
 
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Caitlin Cobb-Vialet
Endless Void
(War Chant Records)
May 6^th, 2022
  

Track Listing:
 
01. Not Enough (STREAM)
02. Joan To Catherine (STREAM | VIDEO)
03. Ask Me (STREAM | VIDEO)
04. The Reference
05. Collared Shirts
06. You Don’t Try
07. Useless
08. Disco Ball
09. What’s It With You?
10. Float
 
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Caitlin Cobb-Vialet | “Ask Me”
 

 

[VIDEO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9WUSpY83mI
 
[STREAM]: https://fanatic.lnk.to/CaitlinCobbVialet-AskMe
 
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“There is something disarmingly real and genuine with her approach to the craft.” — SF Weekly
 
 “The song finds Caitlin at her beloved piano, reminiscent of early Regina Spektor, as she plucks out rich chords to accompany her soaring, heartfelt vocals,” says music discovery site For The Rabbits in its premiere coverage of the music video of “Ask Me,” the new single by Caitlin Cobb-Vialet. “That feeling of closeness, described beautifully throughout the track... is punctuated by the feeling that this love is ultimately fleeting.”
 
“‘Ask Me’ is a song I wrote inspired by the newfound feeling of safeness and understanding that I felt in my first queer relationship,” Caitlin Cobb-Vialet tells Adobe & Teardrops. “At the end of the song, I come to the realization that ‘even in love you’re still alone,’ alluding to the temporary nature of even powerful love.”
 
Americana UK states that the song “feels immediately familiar. A gorgeously tuneful but conversational style that feels like she is baring her soul to you.”
 
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Caitlin Cobb-Vialet | “Not Enough”
 

[STREAM]: https://Fanatic.lnk.to/CaitlinCobbVialet-NotEnough
 
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“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.
 
CLOUT says the song is “Distinctive and effortlessly engaging... candid and intimate in a really warm and conversational way,” continuing on to proclaim, “‘Not Enough’ feels like a living thing.”
 
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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. 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.
 
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 6^th, 2022 preceded by the singles “Ask Me” (Feb. 4^th), “Joan To Catherine” (March 4^th), and “Disco Ball” (April 8^th).
 
Caitlin Cobb-Vialet is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.
 
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Caitlin Cobb-Vialet | Links
 
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