Having spent five years signposting the direction of her musical journey with a consistent flow of subtly evolving EP releases, LA-based singer-songwriter Claire Chicha—aka spill tab—has arrived at her destination: her debut album, ANGIE. “I think I’ve always had this goal where I’m trying to represent myself the fullest of my ability in a two-minute song, and I think I’ve been realizing through the process of EPs that that’s not possible,” Chicha told Apple Music 1’s Hanuman Welch. “I do feel like this album, as much as I possibly could, represents not only where I’m from, but where I want to go and the music that I’m listening to now, the music that I’ve been listening to for the past 10 years.” Chicha’s work draws inspiration from myriad sources, blending her appreciation for R&B, electropop, rock, jazz, and more into a unique wash of dreamlike alt-pop, roughened round the edges with unexpected synth embellishments as showcased on tracks like “Athlete” or the bold distortion that scuffs through “De Guerre.” “It speaks to the conversation between the digital and organic and the destruction and the rebuilding that comes with just feeding a sound back and forth, from an analog synth into a computer back into a pedal,” said Chicha, who co-wrote and produced the bulk of the record with John Hill (FKA twigs, Charli xcx) and Solomonophonic (SZA, Remi Wolf). “Those conversations, musically, are what make me the most excited about musicmaking. So to me, this album is that conversation in action, but also shows my evolution with that music and production, and being able to work with all these incredible collaborators has just made me a better artist.”