NASHVILLE |DT: JULY 18, 2013
FR: LIBBY COFFEY/MSO PR
SOKO:
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW AND PERFORMANCE
ON MTV IGGY
NEW SONG “FIRST LOVE NEVER DIE”
DOWNLOAD OF THE DAY
TODAY ON MPR’s “THE CURRENT”
LISTEN/WATCH HER DEBUT LIVE PERFORMANCE ON
KCRW’S “MORNING BECOMES ECLECTIC”
Singer-songwriter-actress SOKO continues to captivate audiences worldwide. This past month, MTV IGGY recorded an exclusive performance on location at the The McKittrick Hotel in New York City. Watch the clip here:
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SOKO performs the new song “Destruction of the Disgusting Ugly Hate” from her just-released debut album I THOUGHT I WAS AN ALIEN out on Community Music, the Los Angeles-based indie label founded by Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros.
After the performance, SOKO sat down for an intimate interview with MTV to talk about her creative process and her impressive new single, song and short film “Monster Love/I Just Want To Make It New With You.” SOKO both directed and stars in the short film–filmed on VHS in her unique DIY style like her previous clips–alongside Morgan Krantz and actor, model and marine activist Hannah Fraser. The soundtrack for the short film includes both “I Just Want To Make It New With You,” off her debut I THOUGHT I WAS AN ALIEN and “Monster Love,” featuring Ariel Pink (of Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti) a new song from her forthcoming album My Dreams Dictate My Reality. View SOKO’s interview with MTV IGGY here and see the short film for “Monster Love / I Just Want To Make It New With You” and exclusive Q&A with SOKO and Ariel Pink on Nowness: http://www.nowness.com/day/2013/6/26/3127/soko–monster-love.
VOGUE magazine writer Evelyn Crowley says, “Her music is deceptively sophisticated. Beneath the neu-folk veneer of her debut album, I Thought I Was an Alien, lies lush beds of texture rife with swelling strings, pulsating synthetic drum beats, and reverb-soaked keyboards. There’s also an undercurrent of melancholia running through the fourteen tracks.” (6/12/13). Elsewhere, MTV’s Alexis Stephens described her as “Singer-songwriter SoKo crafts impossibly fragile music. This is most apparent in her live performances. Her guitar-playing coats the rhythm of her songs like honey, carefully avoiding the pulse, giving her music the wooziness of Mazzy Star. She modulates her voice between a gingerly sing-song and a forlorn crackle. This isn’t to say that her frailty is a put-on, but rather that there is a logic to the way she channels art out of her vulnerable heart.” (7/17/13) In his album review for The Talkhouse Stew (of the Negro Problem) noted “This is an amazing record by an incredible artist. You should stop reading this now and just listen to it…‘Destruction of the Disgusting Ugly Hate’ is another classic. This is the it song. Listening to it is a seriously guilty pleasure and a wonderfully comical experience: it’s so utterly infectious with its drum-machiney shuffle and gorgeous, blooming chorus, and the kicker is, you are enjoying this whole experience in the same way you would ‘Hot Fun in the Summertime,’ only it’s called ‘Destruction of the Disgusting Ugly Hate.’ I can’t think of anywhere where loss has been explored as complexly, masterfully and affectively than in this song, where we are forced into various directions at once by the rhythm, the melody, her voice, the text, etc. It forces me to smile even as I feel I shouldn’t. Pop music rarely pulls tricks like this. Brilliant.” (7/15/13 http://thetalkhouse.com/reviews/view/stew-soko).
In radio news, today, Thursday July 18, SOKO’s new single “First Love Never Die” will be the download of the day on MPR’s “The Current.” Listen to the song here: http://www.thecurrent.org. Recently, SOKO made her debut live performance on the renowned “Morning Becomes Eclectic” show on tastemaker Los Angeles public radio station and NPR affiliate KCRW 89.9 FM. During the interview with KCRW host Jason Bentley, SOKO reflected on the inspirations behind her debut album I THOUGHT I WAS AN ALIEN and her music and acting careers. Watch and listen to SOKO’s interview and performance on KCRW’s “Morning Becomes Eclectic” here.
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About SOKO:
Singer-songwriter-musician-actress SOKO is one-of-a-kind: intimate, vulnerable, vital, tear-stained, heartbreaking mixing lo-fi to ethereal, haunted sounds, often all at once. I Thought I Was An Alien is full of love and loss and worry, the kind of fundamental, life-dictating human feelings which are so far beyond rational explanation. SOKO has the rare ability to sing openly about those feelings, in a way which is utterly compelling, sometimes devastating, but also, completely uplifting. “The title I Thought I Was An Alien is about social alienation,” explains SOKO. The explosive young Frenchwoman’s songs have already touched people around the world, earning her a devoted, global following. Since her teens, SOKO has been on a roller coaster journey. From a stockpile of over 100 songs, she finally whittled them down to 14 for I Thought I Was An Alien. Prolific songwriting aside, SOKO is known for directing and creating all of her own music videos and artwork in her unique, DIY style. SOKO has appeared in 13 French films. She won “Best Actress” last Fall at the Mar Del Plata Film Festival in Argentina for her starring role in Augustine (Music Box) and she’s been nominated for a César Award for (In the Beginning, French: À l’origine). SOKO is garnering rave reviews for Augustine out now in limited U.S. release through August. For a list of theaters showing Augustine, visit: http://www.musicboxfilms.com/augustine-movies-66.php.
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For more information on SOKO, contact:
Libby Coffey/MSO 818 380 0400 x224, LCoffey@msopr.com
