Sobie Released 3 Words, Her First New Song in Almost Seven Years
Sobie Released 3 Words, Her First New Song in Almost Seven Years
The UK-Based Songwriter Comes Back with Warm, Guitar-Driven Indie Pop and an Animated Video
Sobie released 3 Words on 7 June 2024, a warm indie pop single built on guitars, with an animated video that went up a day earlier. It was her first new song in almost seven years, after her music making seemed to stop in the winter that followed her debut album.
Sobie’s 3 Words now sits on our pop playlist, and the coverage of her return now lives on Sobie’s artist profile. The single came to this desk through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news titles. Press play, then read on for the long winter before it.
Before 3 Words, Sobie Made The Montréal Winter and Then Went Quiet
Sobie is a songwriter based in London, United Kingdom, and the catalogue starts in April 2015. Lest We Forget arrived that month, and the single Our Priceless Men was written in memory of the ANZACs for the centenary.
The next step was bigger. In September 2016, MTL came out as the first single from a debut album. It was recorded with a full band on keyboard, guitars, bass and drums, and Sobie played one of the guitar parts herself. The album, The Montréal Winter, followed that November with eight tracks.
Then the releases stopped. By Sobie’s own account, the music making seemed to die in the winter after the album, and no new song appeared for years.
That gap is the backdrop for everything 3 Words does. A first album sets a sound, and a long silence afterwards raises the stakes for whatever comes next, because the return has to explain the absence.
3 Words Ends Sobie’s Long Winter With Guitar-Driven Indie Pop
3 Words runs to three minutes and 29 seconds, and it sounds like a thaw. Sobie, also known as Soph Botta, wrote it, and the production leans on guitars from start to finish. The result is a bright, uplifting take on the indie rock warmth of the first album.
The song sits between folk pop and indie pop, with a soft rock edge. It is also a love song, and an unhurried, happy one.
The video, animated by Rnotte, is part of the appeal. It went up on YouTube on 6 June 2024, the day before the single reached streaming services.
The coverage followed within a month. Mystic Sons treated it as a long-awaited return on 5 July 2024, and two days later INDIEOCLOCK in Brazil singled out the animated video as well as the song.
Long gaps have ended well before. Kate Bush went twelve years between The Red Shoes in 1993 and Aerial in 2005. The new album then entered the UK Albums Chart at number three. 3 Words works on a much smaller scale, but it carries the same message: the artist is back, and the time away did not dull the writing.
Bedroom pop also has a history of breaking through on video. In August 2017, Clairo uploaded the video for Pretty Girl, filmed on her laptop webcam, and it went viral. Since then, a simple, personal video has been one of the genre’s main ways in, and the 3 Words animation follows that route with a hand-made feel of its own.
What Comes Next for Sobie After 3 Words, With New Songs on the Way
The Instagram profile still points to 3 Words as the new single. Meanwhile, the Facebook page says that new tunes are already cooking.
So the single works as a first chapter rather than a one-off. After almost seven years away, it reopened the catalogue, and the next songs are already being made.
It also suits a second look now. In the United Kingdom, where Sobie is based, it fits playlists for warm indie pop and soft rock, especially for curators who like a story behind a release.
MusicDrops.News’s curator team: “3 Words is a comeback that does not try too hard. The guitars do the lifting, the song stays short and sunny, and the animated video gives it a face after years of silence.”
The single suits listeners of indie pop, folk pop and bedroom pop who want something warm and unhurried. It also suits anyone who followed the first album and has been waiting for the next chapter.
Start with the video on this page, then play the single on Spotify. After that, go back to the 2016 album to hear where the story paused.
3 Words is out now on Bandcamp and Apple Music. Follow Sobie on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook.
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