I thought I was an alien - Soko (I thought I was an alien, 2012)

Director: Spike Jonze (filmed on the iPhone!)

Soko is back! Soko is back! It’s French girl adorable time! Nowness interviewed the kooky one:

Do you think you’re an alien?

I don’t have a lot of self-confidence so I always feel like I’m the weirdo and that maybe I’m from another planet. I don’t strongly believe in aliens but I think the myths surrounding them are fascinating. I wonder if we’re all aliens. Maybe there are other people on other planets; they’re probably just the same as us and struggling with the same things.

Oh Soko.

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Video: Spike Jonze’s Mourir Auprès de Toi

The latest short film from Spike Jonze — following last year’s Nick Zinner-assisted robot love story, I’m Here, and this year’s Arcade Fire collaboration, Scenes From the Suburbs — arrived today in the form of Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side), a stop-motion tale of characters from canonized books coming to life in Paris’ famed Shakespeare & Company bookshop. The quirky tragicomedy stars Jonze himself, voicing the skeleton of Macbeth, and French singer/actress SoKo as Mina Harker from Bram Stoker’s Dracula, brought to life through 3,000 hand-cut pieces of felt crafted by handbag designer Olympia Le-Tan. Co-directed by Simon Cahn, the love story closes with a catchy tune sung by SoKo (sounding eerily similar to Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are collaborator Karen O), whose long-awaited debut LP just got pushed back to February. Check out the animated felt flick above.

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Mum - Marina and Soko

Soko is back, in duet form, teaming up with Marina Vello. This single was produced by Radioclit and is part of a series of 7″s put out by IHEARTCOMIX and Pure Groove. The song samples liberally from WAR’s Lowrider.