About Claire
The music from Seattle-based artist, Claire Tucker, is like the flame atop an ever-burning candle. Her light can warm your hands or face with song. But when touched against another torch or lamp, the fire can spread prosperously. It can cook. It can burn. And it can shine directly down onto anything in need of a little illumination. Such are the melodies and rhythms that Tucker brings into the world one glowing musical note after another. If you look closely at the flame shimmying on the wick, you’ll see its layers.
While Tucker is poised to release her debut solo record, Same Old Hunters, this year, she has participated for years in established, recognized projects in the Emerald City, like Loose Wing (praised by Rolling Stone Magazine) and Black Nite Crash (praised by KEXP). Her dancing, dreamy, ethereal guitar playing highlights the nuances and breadth of each of these fanciful projects.
Tucker's debut four-song EP features the poignant, wonderous single, “Tickets and Tapes” which sets the stage for her select and superb sonic storytelling. The record also features her husband (and Loose Wing band mate), Jack Peters, and multi-instrumentalist, Jon Pontrello, of the acclaimed band, Moondoggies. With her lush musical sensibilities, skilled finger-picking and her crystal-clear voice, Tucker is an essential light in the Northwest. One that won’t quickly fade. -- Jake Uitti
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“There is a lot of reference for Claire Tucker’s work — Joni to Rickie pop folk, intimate chamber music, softly sung and intricately produced– but Tucker’s best quality, to stack onto all that, is one of defiance and acerbic wit... Lyrically, I don’t think Tucker has a contemporary”
“Tickets and Tapes, the first single from Claire Tucker's debut EP, is a lovely and wistful melody that shimmers with woozy guitar and delicate piano.” - Andrew Boe
“Tucker is a talented chameleon. Her band Loose Wing made a worthy, ’80s-R.E.M.-ish album last year, and she also guitars for louder shoegazers Black Nite Crash. But in reserving these four songs for a solo EP, she’s got a third, distinctive tact: lovely chamber folk... it’s the spareness of shimmery beds like Mary of Rain, and Tucker’s embedding her siren vocals into them, that lends Same Old Hunters a dreamlike state. Such ghostly warmth and gentle beauty show she’s aced this genre, too.” - Jack Rabid
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