Here at the end of last year, in a packed ABClub, and De Morgen was enthusiastic: 'I Blame Coco makes a confident debut in AB-Club ***... vibrant electro-pop... the songs have everything required, are all afflicted with refrains that stick in your head already after a first listen, and they also effortlessly stood up to live performance. She looked the audience right in the eye and exuded much more self-assurance than most girls her age... plenty of songwriting talent too... that she has sufficient qualities to go a long way is perfectly clear from both the first CD and this brief visit to the Ancienne Belgique. Soon Coco will no longer be a synonym for Chanel.'

Not bad and, to add to this, we can only pick up the thread of the existing announcement:
'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 the daughter of Sting. 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: In the Club at the end of November and in the Box already in March!

Support act will be the warmly recommended Washington. Megan Washington in full, an Australian who can do it solo or, previously, still at the side of Ben Lee as well as brilliantly with extra many strings during YouTube Play in the Guggenheim museum! After a few EP's, including that exquisite 'How To Tame Lions', finally in 2010 her first 'full CD': 'I Believe You Liar' (also via Universal.) So now, rightly too, this spring she'll be heading out on tour with I Blame Coco!