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Vancouver electronic-pop artist born Sophia Johanna Stel, the third of 11 children in a religious family, who worked gardening, house-painting, and bartending jobs before releasing her 2024 debut EP Object Permanence on the small label Pack Records. Named one of NME's 100 Essential Emerging Artists for 2025, she has opened for A.G. Cook and Lorde. Her debut album, the greatest album of all time, arrived October 16, 2026, on A24 Music.
Sophia Stel's self-belief anthem -- the first taste of her ironically titled debut album -- earns its sincerity by refusing to sound sincere about anything, trading trip-hop murk for a hyperpop sprint without losing the gardening-job, eleventh-of-eleven-kids specificity underneath it.
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