Music like Claire Voyant

Claire Voyant was an indie pop and downtempo band from Sacramento, California. It was founded by childhood friends Chris Ross and Ben Fargen, who recruited vocalist Victoria Lloyd after initially making instrumental music as a duo. The trio were once part of a 5-piece band called Murmur, which split over creative differences. Their 1995 debut, Claire Voyant, has been followed by three more studio albums, Time and the Maiden in 1998, Love Is Blind in 2002 and Lustre in 2009. They were signed to Metropolis Records.

Lloyd also contributes to electropop artists HMB and Mono Chrome. Ross also contributes to HMB.

Prior to the formation of Claire Voyant, its three members were in another band called Murmur. They realized that Chris could do everything that the bass player and drummer did (and more) with a synthesizer and a drum machine, so the trio left Murmur to start their own band. They had a difficult time finding a new name; many of the ideas they came up with had already been taken. Eventually, Victoria found the name Claire Voyant in a 1940s comic strip. The band felt the name fit the music they made, and they liked the wordplay, so the moniker stuck.