MP3: Swedish Newcomer Soso

Album arrives next year.

By Blurt Staff

Soso, the latest talented songbird to be exported from Sweden, will have her delightfully-titled debut album  That Time I Dug So Deep I Ended Up In China released early next year, and we've got an advance taste of it for you. Check out "Who's Gonna Love Me":

Who's Gonna Love Me by You Can Call Me Soso

A few details to fill you in as you listen to the track:

*The process of her recording has been totally limited to her bedroom in her apartment in Stockholm. In it, she has written and self-produced every track on the album. Every video and photograph has been shot by her boyfriend in her apartment or backyard. She directed and edited them all herself  and claims that her press shots were taken in her bathroom (see above).

*The album title has a suitable double meaning as China is the furthest, most foreign destination she could think of in contrast to the familiar and to stay true to her theme she has played around a lot with traditional Chinese instruments in her electronic productions. Soso also remembers her mother saying to her, while playing in the sandbox as a child; "Soso, if you keep digging like that, you'll end up in China!"

*The record features a number of preludes and semi-instrumentals, including titles "Every Man I Love Has Got A Girlfriend," "Everything Near Becomes Distant" and "Sab Lackath". The latter, an anagram for Black Sabbath, is a track in which Soso recorded herself crying and edited it into a rhythmic beat. There is also an interpretation of Cody Chestnutt's "My Women, My Guitars" on the record, in which Soso sings the lyrics "I've Got A Dick Full Of Blood And A Wide Open Heart To Lean On" as if it was the most natural thing in the world.