It's not easy growing up and finding your way in life. On the basis of the four short tracks on her debut EP, I think it's fair to say that Philadelphia-born Sophie Coran still hasn't found what she's looking for.
She's a classically-trained pianist but clearly has a preference for the simplicity and directness of pop. Her arrangements are conventional and uncomplicated, there's a hint of orchestration but nothing that really detracts from the voice and piano.
On Tell Me, the opening track, she is a little girl lost, looking for guidance and reassurance from a guy with a freckled back yet knows in her heart this is not the way to contentment.
On Out Of Focus she is even more resigned: "Hoping is hopeless; Don't know what I want anymore"
When in doubt, travel. Sophie did this in Europe for nine months before settling in London and One-Way Ticket reflects on this as a positive experience despite the fact that "In the morning, I'm still left with myself".
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A hint of a brighter future comes with the closing track, Better, a letter to herself in which her life journey is compared to navigating a stormy ocean. "I was lost like a captain at sea" she recalls. The past tense indicates that the worst is past and calmer waters await.
Just thirteen and a half minutes long, this EP does little more than introduce an artist who may have found her sea legs but is still hesitant about casting caution to the wind.
Sophie Coran's website
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