Bio:

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 15th).

NEWS:

PRESS QUOTES:

LIVE:

• 07/12/2022: San Francisco, CA @ Knockout

• 07/22/2022: Oakland, CA @ Elbo Room (w/ Psychic Friends Network, Fauxes)

• 08/06/2022: San Francisco, CA @ Piano Fight (w/ Psychic Friends Network, Folly)

• 08/31/2022: New York, NY @ Rockwood Music Hall (Tickets)

PRESS RELEASES:

• 06/14/2022: Caitlin Cobb-Vialet to perform twice this week in support of critically acclaimed debut album, a “surprisingly poised, brutally honest debut that blows by in just 26 minutes.”

• 05/31/2022: Caitlin Cobb-Vialet delivers “surprisingly poised, brutally honest debut that blows by in just 26 minutes.” “Endless Void” out everywhere now.

• 05/12/2022: Caitlin Cobb-Vialet tells MAGNET: “I write songs about the push-and-pull of being the first daughter of four lesbian mothers.”

• 04/25/2022: Caitlin Cobb-Vialet is “investigating love and loss with a heart full of song” on upcoming “Endless Void” debut album, out May 6.

• 04/07/2022: Caitlin Cobb-Vialet to make Los Angeles debut tonight on grand piano; Songwriter will perform songs from “Endless Void,” out May 6.

• 03/22/2022: “‘Joan To Catherine’ is the latest example of a songwriting powerhouse flexing the depth and variety of her prowess… deathly important and vital.”

• 03/08/2022: 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.”

• 02/17/2022: Watch Caitlin Cobb-Vialet perform “Ask Me,” a song inspired by “the safeness and understanding that I felt in my first queer relationship.”

• 02/04/2022: Caitlin Cobb-Vialet says “Ask Me” single inspired by a “newfound feeling of safeness and understanding that I felt in my first queer relationship,”

• 01/14/2022: Caitlin Cobb-Vialet creates immediate intimacy on dramatic debut album “Endless Void,” arriving May 6th. Hear powerful opener “Not Enough” now.

SOCIALS:

• Instagram: instagram.com/ccvmusicproject

• Facebook: bit.ly/3rlEFUm

• YouTube: bit.ly/3KjHMVI

LISTEN:

• Bandcamp: caitlincobbvialet.bandcamp.com

• Spotify: spoti.fi/3qoJTj5

• Apple: apple.co/3qnC4Kg

Assets: