soko, not soco - luther
So, real quick, I spent some time trying to track down something new for y'all and came across this great bit of French musical wonderfulness called Soko. The songs are sometimes a little too intentionally lo-fi for my tastes, but it seems plausible that it's out of necessity, despite a heafty Myspace subscribership and the fact that I tracked her down from the site of the guy who does Face Hunter.
Touting the cutest voice since the girl from Envelopes, Soko crafts honest, minimalist folk songs that might verge on obnoxiously cutsy if she wasn't so up-front about it. Uncontrived and bare boned, the songs stand on their own without benefit of the crutch of production, which can be refreshing in this age of blatant Autotune and overdubbing.