Fine Food Market is the folk dream-pop project of Montréal-based multidisciplinary artist Sophie Perras. Drawing from her training as a classical pianist and inspired by the sound of her beloved PSR3000 keyboard, the songs of Fine Food Market are intuitive, emotional and fun.
Sophie began writing at an early age with her brother Alexandre Perras (Microwave Tower); to escape an agitated home life they took refuge in music. Later, while living above a grocery store, she sent her brother location-enabled cell phone demos automatically labeled Fine Food Market.
Fine Food Market builds from the rudiments of country-folk and the experimental tendencies of the indie genre to articulate a musical place filled with sunny fields, old cars, and brightly painted houses. This is vulnerable and theatrical music influenced by Michael Hurley, Adrienne Lenker, and Sean Nicholas Savage.
Both eclectic and whimsical, the songs of Fine Food Market can also contain a real sadness—a feeling especially discoverable in her French lyrics. As a bilingual artist she unravels intimate and intricate musings in her own language, writing in a voice reserved for speaking to a close friend. Ultimately sincere, Fine Food Market may also pick up the tools of satire to describe difficult events of her own life.