Sophie Kemp

Nov 15, 2024 | simonandschuster.co.uk | Sophie Kemp

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Oct 21, 2024 | ssense.com | Sophie Kemp

I came of age as a teenager in the early 2010s, at the tail end of being told sex sells. Of bimbo summits. Of invasive flash by way of American Apparel ads. Sky Ferreira’s tits on the cover of her debut album. This was a terrible and violent era to be a woman. These were also some of the first things to ever turn me on. The way the bass drops in the Skrillex song at the start of Spring Breakers, coeds shaking their asses in the tropic zone.

Sep 19, 2024 | i-d.co | Sophie Kemp |Tom Fletcher

August in New York, seven in the evening, sun still hanging in the sky. The saloon is called Clydesdale’s, he tells me. One of the girls from his team comes upstairs and she plugs her phone into a speaker. It’s like bargain bin Scott Joplin, I think. Maybe it actually is Scott Joplin. He is dressed like a pirate. I am dressed normally, for once. Despite what he says, we are not actually in a saloon. We are in the Ludlow Hotel, sitting at an absurdly long table in an otherwise empty bar.

Sep 5, 2024 | pitchfork.com | Sophie Kemp

It’s a party and you’re not invited. It’s a room full of girls in little shirts with their sunglasses still on. A karaoke parlor that turns into a nightclub, and for some reason, the Cobrasnake is there. It’s the best $18 you’ve ever spent, you tell your friend, sipping your negroni, while she throws up into a sewer grate. Where would Fcukers be without Dimes Square? In an alternate universe, we’d ask: Does this band sound too much like Saint Etienne? But here we are.

Aug 26, 2024 | pitchfork.com | Sophie Kemp

I have never put on a record because I wanted to think of the Siege of Vienna. I have never closed my eyes and thought of Kahlenberg, the mountain, and known that the Ottomans were closing in. I have never put on a record because I wanted to think of Henry James’ Turn of the Screw. I don’t know why anyone puts on a record. I do know that music often sounds really good when you are in love, and that is a good reason to put on a record.