By Colin 
Sofia & The Antoinettes has today released her striking new single ‘Introspection’, co-written and produced by Grammy Award winner Rob Bisel. The song is a soul-searching reflection on identity, filled with the intimacy and detail that has already set Sofia apart as one of the most distinctive new voices in London.
Arriving with a video directed by long-time collaborator Joan Horrach, ‘Introspection’ captures Sofia onstage in a grand theatre. It is the perfect backdrop for an artist who has been building a reputation for vivid lyricism, distinctive vocals, and unforgettable stage presence. Each performance feels like stepping into her private world, where fragments of poetry and romance blend into something deeply personal.
A concept that defines her debut
The single forms part of Sofia’s debut EP Women Who Love Too Much, set for release on 26 September. Inspired by Robin Norwood’s classic book of the same name, the project extends Sofia’s Bar Doña residency concept, where she stages evenings under different themes such as Women Who Cry Too Much, Women Who Smoke Too Much, and Women Who Think Too Much. It is through this framework that she explores female emotion, destruction, and resilience, creating a bold body of work that is both conceptual and intimate.
Sofia explains that her songs are for women who find themselves drawn to painful or unbalanced relationships, who feel things intensely, and who find beauty in the smallest everyday moments. Describing her music as “existentialism in high heels,” she cites Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Sylvia Plath, and Lana Del Rey among her inspirations. The result is a sound that is timeless and literary, yet fresh and distinctly her own.
Her earlier singles have already marked her as a writer of rare quality. Last year’s debut ‘Matthew’ was a love letter turned into song, filled with cinematic imagery and the ache of memory. Follow-up track ‘Spiralling’ built further on that vision, its marching rhythm carrying lines like: “I could walk you home the long way tonight / I could write you a love song, only if you like / I’ve been talking about you to God, and she thinks you’re nice.” For Sofia, “God in my world is a woman, and the weakness or softness we possess is a weapon.”
An exciting Autumn ahead
Following the release of ‘Introspection’, Sofia will be featured by Jess Iszatt on BBC Introducing in London. She will then head into a busy autumn with live performances from the new EP before supporting Lola Young across her October UK tour, including a major date at London’s O2 Academy Brixton on 15 October.
If Sofia Coppola and David Lynch collaborated on a script using a box of lost love letters, it might come close to the dreamlike world Sofia & The Antoinettes is creating. With Women Who Love Too Much, she is stepping confidently into the spotlight as one of the UK’s most arresting new talents.
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