Sofi Tukker (stylized in all caps) is a musical duo based in New York City, consisting of Sophie Hawley-Weld and Tucker Halpern.
[10] Due to an illness, he changed his career, started DJing, occasionally with musician Nicolas Jaar,[11] and concentrated on making music.
[15] The EP includes "Drinkee", "Matadora", "Awoo",[16] "Déjà Vu Affair", "Moon Tattoo", and "Hey Lion".
[17] "Drinkee" is adapted from a poem written by the Brazilian poet Chacal, sung sensually amidst cowbells, bongos, electric guitars and deep driving bass.
On April 24, 2020, Australian radio station Triple J premiered a new song created by the duo titled "When the Rona's Over", as part of a COVID-19 self-isolation musical challenge nicknamed Quarantune.
A social media-connected community of fans, known as the "Freak Fam", have even formed their own channels and held Zoom dance parties during the livestream.
The clean version of their song "Batshit", titled "That's It (I'm Crazy)", was featured in a TV commercial for Apple promoting their special edition iPhone 8 RED smartphone in 2018.
[29] On June 28, 2018, they collaborated with Italian DJ Benny Benassi for the single "Everybody Needs a Kiss",[30] and on September 14, 2018, they released a remix of "Energia" with Brazilian singer Pabllo Vittar.
[36] Paste magazine described the band's release as "an insatiable dance collection of jungle-pop songs with many well-executed nods towards Brazilian instruments, poets and to the national language, Portuguese".
"Though Sofi Tukker's mélange of disparate sounds and influences—bossa-nova rhythms, cowbells, castanets, and spaghetti-western guitars—lends Treehouse an air of worldly sophistication, Hawley-Weld and Halpern never take themselves or their music too seriously.