I Thought I Was An Alien Soko SKU: BEC5161135 Barcode: 5060281611352 14.00 £14.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Because Music Released Date: 20th February 2012 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Soko will release her highly anticipated debut album ‘I Thought I Was An Alien’ on February 20th. ‘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, they really ought to be kept under lock and key, along with that strange apparition from Roswell. Like one of her heroes, Daniel Johnston, however, Soko has the rare ability to sing openly about those feelings, in a way which is utterly compelling, sometimes devastating, but also, just from the fact of their articulation, completely uplifting. Like innumerable bedsit troubadours of her generation, Soko started out with just her voice, her acoustic guitar, and her laptop, the latter equipped with her favourite application, GarageBand. Her early songs talked frankly about sex, romantic jealousy and depression, as well as peanut butter, cats and tigers. Unhappy with how her recordings were losing their magic due to over production Soko decided to leave music proclaiming, \’Soko is dead\’. However In late 2010 whilst living in LA, Soko was introduced to Fritz Michaud, who had her instant admiration, having worked on the late Elliott Smith’s final album, ‘From A Basement On The Hill’. The pair worked every day for eight months and the result is a delicately wonderful debut LP. Soko says she writes best and most prolifically, when she has a muse in her life. Alex Ebert, from Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, was apparently one of them. Soko’s acoustic playing, too, has grown up from the punky thrumming of before, often arriving at the complex, fluid picking of the \’old 60s folk dudes\’ she’s been listening to, such as Roy Harper, Michael Hurley, Davey and Jackson C Frank. Having asserted her control over her music, Soko realised that rules are made to be broken, and allowed others – close friends, this time – to add their expertise; “When I needed a new take on something. Stella [Mozgawa] came and added some magic. I said, ‘Can you play some weird guitar solo in a hooky Television style?’ She came up with that and we would write the harmony to that, so it was very collaborative.” Likewise, she called in her friend from Australia to provide string parts on ‘We Might Be Dead By Tomorrow’. The air of mortal tragedy in Soko’s songs comes from bitter experience. Soko’s lost a lot of close relatives over the years (‘I’ve Been Alone Too Long’ is a song for her father who passed away) and her song, ‘We Might Be Dead By Tomorrow’ is like an urge to live life to the full. When she sings of a rootless existence, always sadly moving on with her suitcase and her guitar, you know that this is her existence – and it really is. Her songs may not always be easy listening, but the gains are all the greater. She’s had a fan come up to her after a show, saying that they’d come off heroin, after hearing her tortuous, in-love-with-an-addict number, ‘For Marlon’. Her songs literally change lives. After such a long and soul-searching evolution, ‘I Thought I Was An Alien’ finally introduces a truly singular talent, at her point of fruition. Artist Soko Genre Rock And Pop Label Because Music Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings 1 Just Want To Make It New With You 2 I Thought I Was An Alien 3 People Always Look Better In The Sun (Part 1) 4 We Might Be Dead By Tomorrow 5 No More Home No More Love 6 For Marlon 7 First Love Never Die 8 Treat Your Woman Right 9 How Are You? 10 Don’t You Touch Me 11 Destruction Of The Disgusting Ugly Hate 12 Happy Hippie Birthday 13 I’ve Been Alone Too Long 14 Why Don’t You Eat Me Now, You Can 15 You Have A Power On Me Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Soko and more from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Soko Feel Feelings Rock And Pop | Because Music | 1LP Released 10th July 2020 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Soko Feel Feelings £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Because Music SKU: BEC5650484 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 10th July 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Billy Gibbons & The BFGs Perfectamundo Blues | Concord | 1LP Released 1st May 2024 £18.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Billy Gibbons & The BFGs Perfectamundo £18.00 Genre: Blues Label: Concord SKU: nn285915 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 1st May 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket On Sale View Product Quick View Girls In Synthesis The Rest Is Distraction Rock And Pop | Own It | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 14th October 2022 £15.99 - £21.00 £21.00 Select options Girls In Synthesis The Rest Is Distraction £15.99 - £21.00 £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Own It Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 14th October 2022 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Bad Company Straight Shooter (Atlantic 75 Series) (SACD) Rock And Pop | Analogue Productions (Atlantic 75 Series) | SACD Released 22nd December 2025 £45.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Bad Company Straight Shooter (Atlantic 75 Series) (SACD) £45.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Analogue Productions (Atlantic 75 Series) SKU: CAPA 037 SA Formats: SACD Released Date: 22nd December 2025 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Alanis Morissette Havoc and Bright Lights Rock And Pop | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 2LP Released 11th December 2020 £31.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Alanis Morissette Havoc and Bright Lights £31.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP2588 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 11th December 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Kula Shaker 1st Congregational Church Of Eternal Love and Free Hugs Rock And Pop | Strangefolk | 2LP Released 29th July 2022 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Kula Shaker 1st Congregational Church Of Eternal Love and Free Hugs £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Strangefolk SKU: SFKS020LP Formats: 2LP Released Date: 29th July 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bevis Frond, The The Clocks Rock And Pop | Blue Matter Records | 2LP Released 9th December 2022 £29.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bevis Frond, The The Clocks £29.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Blue Matter Records SKU: LOBELP002 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 9th December 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Part Time Virgo’s Maze Rock And Pop | Burger Records | 2LP Released 29th June 2015 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Part Time Virgo’s Maze £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Burger Records SKU: BRGR875LP Formats: 2LP Released Date: 29th June 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Maneskin Rush Rock And Pop | Sony Music | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Picture Disc Released 20th January 2023 £25.00 - £35.00 Select options Maneskin Rush £25.00 - £35.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sony Music Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Picture Disc Released Date: 20th January 2023 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Arcane Roots Landslide Rock And Pop | Easy Life | 12", EP/Mini Album Released 14th September 2018 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Arcane Roots Landslide £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Easy Life SKU: ELIFE011LP Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album Released Date: 14th September 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Maximo Park Our Earthly Pleasures Rock And Pop | Warp | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 4th November 2022 £21.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Maximo Park Our Earthly Pleasures £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Warp SKU: WARPLP155R Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 4th November 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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