Premiere: Sofia Bolt shares new single 'Bus Song' with Stella Donnelly
New album Vendredi Minuit It arrives May 10 via Born Losers Records
March 28, 2024
Sofia Bolt is the indie pop project of French-born musician, songwriter and producer Amelie Rousseaux. Rousseaux debuted as Sofia Bolt in 2019 with her first full-length record. Wavyand followed in 2022 with a new EP, Soft as a peach. It's been a long time since she's been writing and recording her upcoming sophomore LP, Vendredi Minuit, which finds Rousseaux dipping into stylistic detours like psych pop and trip hop, weaving them into a dreamy and shimmering tapestry of influences. She recorded the album in Los Angeles at Tropico Beauty Studios and co-produced it with her longtime collaborator Oliver Hill (Dirty Projectors, Kevin Morby, Vagabon).
Last month, Rousseaux shared the album's lead single, “Go Away,” and today she returns with another new track, “Bus Song,” featuring Stella Donnelly, which premieres with Under the Radar.
Rousseaux takes on a smooth, sunny presence with “Bus Song,” riding a haze of plucked guitar strings and smoky woodwind tones. The orchestration conjures up a tense underground with heavy guitar tones and minor chords, while Rousseaux and Donnelly's vocals dance together in overlapping concertos. Instead, that tension dissolves into a cool and wistful reverie with the chorus, the lyrics dwelling on uncertainty: “On a hot ride / Maybe I'll meet you / Caught in time.”
Rousseaux says of the track, “I wrote this song with Euan Hinshelwood. He was in LA visiting from the UK and was taking the bus over to my house, a novelty. So we decided to write a song about it.”
Check out the song and accompanying video below. Vendredi Minuit out May 10 via Born Losers Records.
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