My Dreams Dictate My Reality

Stéphanie Sokolinski better known by her stage name Soko (sometimes stylized as SoKo) is a French singer.
Her debut album is due to be released in February 2012 following the singles ‘I Thought I Was An Alien’ and ‘First Love Never Die.’
Nylon Interview:
With your focus less on movies these days, what other projects have been keeping you busy?
[My debut album] I Thought I Was An Alien is actually going to be released in the US on June 11, and then I'm finishing a new record in LA right now. It's called My Dreams Dictate My Reality, and I hope it's going to come out really soon.
Since you're already working on your second album, is it weird to be promoting your first album?
Oh yeah, I've totally moved on [laughs]. It's really weird, actually, because I feel like this first record was so personal and emotional and very dark and very sad, and it was very hard for me to perform it. I love playing shows more than anything in the world, but it had to be a very quiet audience and in very intimate venues; I couldn't play an intimate set singing about my father's death in front of drunk people. I'd have panic attacks, like, "I can't do this!" [The new album] is way less acoustic, it's super dream popish and some are almost post-punk.