REPOST: SoKo is So French!

Stéphanie Sokolinski a.k.a SoKo!!

So my business partner just got back from Germany and told me about this new female singer that is all the rage. Apparently she is a well known french actress (Stéphanie Sokolinski) who is now playing music. It is straight up indie. Kind of like a french kimya dawson (moldy peaches, juno, anyone?). Kind of like feist. But she is blowing up in Europe. No one here knows her here yet. And you can tell this is going to be something KEXP is going to eat up so hardcore!





Show review from Gigwise UK:
"It's difficult to know what to make of our French friend. Playing a solo show with just ukulele and keyboard (She is normally supported by a full band) she comes across as a real life Phoebe Buffet with song titles such as 'I Hate Your Dog', 'Baby Cat' and 'I Think I'm Pregnant'. There's definitely the influence of Daniel Johnson throughout with very little attention paid to the music, all simple beats and strums, and nursery rhyme like storytelling but beneath the simplicity the words cut deep with an emotional wit. Shy and bumbling throughout there is something charming about Soko in her innocent persona that makes her music no matter how absurd beautifully arresting."