Audrey Hobert releases solitary 'Phoebe' video
Audrey Hobert has released a music video for “Phoebe”, a song from her debut album Who’s the Clown?. The album arrived in early 2025, as reported by Pitchfork. A debut album is an artist’s first full-length record, and the clip is the latest screen companion to that record.
The video keeps the focus tight. Hobert travels alone to the beach, the mountains and the forest. She goes alone. No band, no crowd, just changing landscapes around one performer.
Hobert has said the song remains emotional to sing. She sometimes cries when performing “Phoebe”. That note gives context to the spare, solitary images.
Visuals have been part of how she has introduced the project. Hobert self-directed the earlier Who’s the Clown? videos for “Silver Jubilee”, “Sex and the City” and “Thirst Trap”. She also self-directed “Bowling Alley”, which arrived as her second single, meaning the second track put forward ahead of wider release. She played her first live show at the Slipper Room in New York, Stereogum reported.
Since then, the live footprint has grown. Hobert has performed songs from Who’s the Clown? for NPR’s Tiny Desk, the stripped-back concert series filmed at the broadcaster’s offices, Late Night with Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon. On Fallon, the featured song was “Chateau”. Those slots put a new artist in front of broadcast audiences beyond her own channel.
Online, the song already had a footprint. An official ‘Phoebe (Audio)’ upload has sat on Hobert’s YouTube channel since October 2025, alongside a playlist that gathers videos and tracks from Who’s the Clown?. Her channel also lists ‘Thirst Trap (Official Video)’, which runs for 3 minutes 20 seconds. In May 2026, Malcolm Todd covered ‘Phoebe’ for triple j’s Like A Version, the Australian station’s regular segment in which visiting artists perform a cover song, as seen on YouTube.
For listeners catching up, this connects the threads. The early singles and first New York show introduced Hobert as a live act who travelled further through television sessions. “Phoebe” brings the focus back to one voice in open space. It is a quiet continuation rather than a reset.
