7/17
@sofiabolt is back on our stage with special guest
@jonnykosmo + DJ set by
@ziembavision !!!
🪻🪻🪻
Sofia Bolt is the French-born musician, songwriter, and producer, Amélie Rousseaux. Her nostalgic debut album, Waves, released in 2019, was praised by Iggy Pop, Pitchfork, and The Guardian. Since then she has collaborated regularly with songwriting legend Van Dyke Parks. The acclaimed soundtrack to Hedi Slimane’s CELINE W2020 collection was her creation as well. And most recently she can be heard singing in Cate Blanchett’s film production Fingernails. Bolt has toured with Interpol, Sharon van Etten, Stella Donnelly, and Rodrigo Amarante.
Dreamy, pensive, and visceral, Vendredi Minuit (French for Friday Midnight) delves into Bolt’s relationship with time, both lyrically and musically. Her shimmery, sparsely arranged songs feel like reflections on a personal but also collective past—referencing decades that have shaped her as a musician and a human, whether she lived through them or not. We get excerpts of Baudelaire; we brush with Mahler. Bolt celebrates her French grandmother in “Love is an Attitude.” “Milk,” with its wandering Velvet Underground-esque guitars, was inspired by a VHS of Titanic.
While Bolt weaves bits of French pop, 60s psych, and 90s trip hop through Vendredi Minuit’s streets and hallways, her classic melodic structures and spirited grooves keep us locked (dare we say ‘Bolt’-ed?) into a deliberate meditation on the present. Enter Sofia Bolt’s universe and a timeless reverie one may find. Vendredi Minuit arrives May 10, 2024 via Born Losers Records.
