ABOUT

Paper Citizen is the indie rock project of Singaporean singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Claire Gohst.

Claire began performing professionally at seventeen, playing violin and singing with rock and folk bands throughout Singapore. She later moved to Boston to study jazz violin and recording arts, where her background in performance, production, and songwriting came together as Paper Citizen. Now based in Los Angeles, her music traces a life lived across cities and cultures, exploring migration, queer identity, grief, belonging, and the complicated search for home.

Since releasing the debut EP Postcards in Transit in 2016, Paper Citizen has continued to evolve through Distraction, Wandering Ghost, and a series of singles. Along the way, the project was named The Deli Magazine’s New England Emerging Artist of the Month and received nominations from the New England Music Awards and Boston Music Awards.

Paper Citizen’s debut full-length album, Embers, brings together twelve songs written across several years of change. The album is about what remains after loss, displacement, and transformation, but it is also about gratitude: finding community, building a chosen family, accepting love, and recognizing the quiet joy that can exist alongside grief. Like embers after a fire, something remains: warmth, memory, and the possibility of beginning again.