'Self Machine' is the irresistible single by this youthful British talent. I Blame Coco, as the singer calls her project (full name: Eliot 'Coco' Paulina Sumner), just turned twenty and, yes, is Sting's daughter. But she sounds different: younger, madder, more 'monolithic, ethereal & robust' as, for her debut on Universal ('The Constant'), Coco made a point of embarking with Robyn from Sweden, who always guarantees a driving and 'just retro enough' sound.
Coco may well like to hang out with Ian Brown, Pete Dougherty, Alex Turner or be mad about The Killers, she's clearly also keen on eighties icons like Duran Duran and Psychedelic Furs. She stubbornly makes her own hit-parade and stage material though: she must have been working on the songs for The Constant since she was fifteen but it was only recently that she veered away from the reggae – or ska sounds (à la papa?). So thanks to Robyn (and, by the way, you'd best write I Blame Coco with one of those ° on the 'a' of blame.)
So things are suddenly moving fast for beautiful Coco: already in the club at the end of November!