Percheye pushes genres with latest EP ‘SOFA’

Percheye is a Paris-based band that was formerly just a solo act by Tristan Rolland, but with the upcoming release, SOFA, the band brings in three new members.

“The whole idea behind the album is to bring Tristan’s idea to life,” Thomas Valay, Percheye’s guitarist, said. Along with Julien Bacquart on bass and Thomas Henry on drums, the four members of Percheye set out to make Tristan’s vision a reality, inputting their own additions as well.

“In every song there’s someone that added that or added this,” Valay said. “Someone that had an idea for piano or synthesiser or drum.”

Rolland described band members as having their own “music universe,” all with different inspirations, but were unified when it came to their tastes. Their collaboration has created a five song project that goes beyond their classic pop sound and into jazz and rock. 

Creating music together can come with its difficulties. Rolland and Valay both described their challenges with being in the studio for the first time.

“[For this album] it was the first time in the studio for the three of us,” Rolland said. “We had a chance to do a first studio session at a friend’s house. It was not a pro studio, but it really helped with what we wanted to do in the real studio … the real challenge was time. We planned to release this EP real soon, and we didn’t have that much time. But we used it in a really good way,” he explained.

“Time is always complicated. When you have two days to record drums and bass, everything is a rush afterwards. We need to stay in the studio till 4:00, 5:00 a.m., I think our brain is just dead afterwards,” Valay added.

“It was exhausting but it was also the best experience of my life,” Rolland said. 

“A new history of Percheye to listeners,” Valey says

“A lot of different styles of music … [a] whole rock vibe,” is how Valay described their latest single “Drained Out.” Rolland described the song beginning with a “rock energy,” but ends with a “nostalgic dreamy part,” revealing the driving force of forgiveness behind the song. “Drained Out” becomes a song “with all this trauma from the past, forgiveness and nostalgia.” 

There isn’t one clear inspiration behind the song. “It’s always complicated to link to something, to link some artist,” Rolland said. But, both agreed that Tame Impala was absolutely an inspiration.

“I [want] listeners [to] feel that there is still something in common [with] the five songs even though they are heading in different way,” Rolland said.

“It’s like having a baby with four friends, and we create this little baby and it’s out for everyone. It has a little piece of [all of us] in each song. We want listeners to enjoy it as we did when we were recording it, and as we enjoy playing live,” Valay described.

Striving to push themselves artistically, Percheye wants to capture the soul of their band in every song. Familiar, but also a whole new vibe.

“A new history of Percheye to listeners,” Valay said. 

SOFA releases October 24, 2025.