Sophia Stel announces signing with A24 Music

“Pure yearning poignancy” – The Guardian

“Stel is not striving to be larger than life; she is trying to reflect it” – DAZED

“Hits you square in the chest” – The FADER

“Ethereal electro-pop elegance” – NME

​​Vancouver artist and producer Sophia Stel has just announced her signing with A24 Music. The news arrives ahead of her upcoming headline tour, which kicks off on April 10th and includes 22 stops across North America and Europe (tickets available HERE). The announcement follows a banner year that saw Stel make her runway debut at Ann Demeulemeester‘s Paris Fashion Week SS26 show, grace the cover of NME, and model spreads for Palace Skateboards and BASKETCASE following the release of her breakout EP, How to Win At Solitaire, and its accompanying deluxe edition, the latter of which features collaborations with Mura Masa, Tommy Genesis, and Cecile Believe. In addition to a performance at Pitchfork Festival in Paris, she was also recently selected for this year’s DAZED 100 and Pigeons & Planes’ 26 Artists To Watch In 2026 list, while earning spots on Best Of 2025 lists from The Face, Notion, Gorilla vs. Bear, and Hearing Things.

How to Win At Solitaire was produced, written, and recorded by Stel in a makeshift basement studio at Vancouver’s since shuttered Paradise, the DIY club she worked in at the time. Released in September, it served as her second project following her 2024 debut EP, Object Permanence. The 2025 deluxe edition featured sleeper hit “I’ll Take It”, which rapidly caught fire on TikTok — and earned her co-signs from Troye Sivan and Megan Skiendiel of KATSEYE. Hailing from the Pacific Northwest, she first cut her teeth within Vancouver’s local music scene, turning heads for her free-flowing prose, Y2K-indebted visuals, and mythos-tinted autobiography. Coupling lyricism inspired by her everyday life with patchwork aesthetics infused with the spontaneous, DIY ethos of homemade digicam videos, Stel has also been championed by PC Music legend A.G. Cook and was named to the The NME 100 in 2025. She is currently working on her debut album.

Please find links to get tickets to the upcoming tour below, and stay tuned for more announcements to come:

2026 Tour – Upcoming Dates:

10/04 – Nista.Astin – Barcelona, ES

13/04 – Pumpehuset – Copenhagen, DK

15/04 – Odessa Club – Warsaw, PL

16/04 – Kantine am Berghain – Berlin, DE

18/04 – Paradiso – Amsterdam, NL

19/04 – Botanique (Witloof Bar) – Brussels, BE

21/04 – Badaboum – Paris, FR

23/04 – Fabric – London, GB

25/04 – King Tut’s – Glasgow, GB

26/04 – The White Hotel – Manchester, GB

01/05 – Elsewhere – New York, NY

02/05 – Ukie Club – Philadelphia, PA

03/05 – DC9 – Washington, DC

04/05 – Purgatory at Masquerade – Atlanta, GA

06/05 – Empty Bottle – Chicago, IL

08/05 – Lost Lake – Denver, CO

09/05 – Brick & Mortar – San Francisco, CA

28/05 – Lodge Room – Los Angeles, CA

30/05 – Barboza – Seattle, WA

04/06 – Club Dada – Dallas, TX

05/06 – 29th Street Ballroom – Austin, TX

06/06 – White Oak Music Hall – Houston, TX

About Sophia Stel:

Born in Victoria, B.C., and shaped by formative years in Vancouver, artist and producer Sophia Stel found a rapt cult fanbase with her 2024 debut EP Object Permanence, a fiercely vulnerable collection of genre-agnostic earworms fueled by her full-bodied, affecting alto. By following her intuition and going against the grain of online fads, Stel is setting trends, not chasing them — always creating from a place of true originality. Her self-directed, sometimes spur-of-the-moment digicam visuals for tracks like “I’ll Take It”and “You Could Hate Me” have the fuzzy realism of vintage photos or cherished memories: effortlessly cool without ever trying to be. In addition to earning co-signs from Troye Sivan and A.G. Cook and being selected for this year’s DAZED 100 and Pigeons & Planes’ 26 Artists To Watch In 2026 list, she recently made her runway debut at Ann Demeulemeester’s PFW SS26 show and embarked on her first headline tour, which included a performance at Pitchfork Festival in Paris, following the release of her sophomore EP, How to Win At Solitaire. Continuing to push the boundaries of today’s music landscape while honing in on a truly singular, post-genre sound that’s all her own, Stel is currently working on her debut album.

About A24 Music:

Founded in 2021, A24 Music is the studio’s home for original music — through the label, A24 has released an extensive catalog of projects, working directly with both established and emerging artists. Notable releases include original scores by Alex G for I Saw the TV Glow, Daniel Lopatin for Marty Supreme, Grizzly Bear for Past Lives, and Son Lux for Everything Everywhere All At Once. A24 Music has also debuted songs such as Sky Ferreira’s “Leash” from Babygirl, Sharon Van Etten’s “Quiet Eyes” from Past Lives, Charli XCX’s “Hot Girl” from Bodies Bodies Bodies, original songs for the I Saw the TV Glow Soundtrack, and “Le Monde” from Talk to Me, among others. Additionally, A24 Music made its mark with the self-titled Mark William Lewis, marking the label’s first signed artist album