Imagine Kimya Dawson went on a foreign exchange program to France and returned with a Jean-Paul Satre novel, a flick-knife, a couple of porno mags, and a French accent, then you are getting somewhere close to the enigma that is Soko.
Stéphanie Sokolinski aka Soko quit music in 2009 before she even released her debut album, claiming herself “dead” via her Myspace page. It was a bold move given that she had a sure fire hit single with “I’ll Kill Her” in Australia and Denmark at the time, and was touring with middle-finger raising, electro-hip hop singer M.I.A. But the pressures of the music industry just weren’t for Soko.