Sofia Bolt, the project of guitarist/vocalist Amélie Rousseaux, is thrilled to announce her debut album Waves, due out June 28 on Loantaka Records. Rousseaux began releasing music as Sofia Bolt in her native France, winning acclaim for her early EPs from Rolling Stone and Noisey. In 2017, following a breakup, she relocated to Los Angeles and began recording music with a wide-ranging cast of collaborators, including the legendary songwriter/composer/arranger Van Dyke Parks, La Luz drummer Marian Li-Pino, and Angel Olsen bassist Emily Elhaj. The psychedelic pop songs they created became Waves.
Stereogum, who announced the record and premiered its new single “Waves,” which features string arrangements by Parks, called the song “a chamber pop beauty,”adding, “Rousseaux’s dulcet tones perfectly blend with Parks’ baroque strings.” Parks shared a quote as well, describing Rousseaux as a “Dazzling French talent arrived in L.A. in a bolt outta the blue. Brimming with music, and a promise of cross-cultural collisions-ready to take back what Lafayette left behind.”
