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Sucré Flips Through Her Old Photo Albums

A pictorial trip down memory lane with Sucré's lead singer Stacy. Surprisingly few fashion fails.

The last time we heard from Stacy King—the artist known as

Sucré

—was circa 2012 when she released her debut album

A Minor Bird,

a record that see-sawed between sparse, delicate compositions (

"Light Up"

) and more fulsome pop epics, as on

"Chemical Reaction,"

with its heartbeat drums and careening strings. Vocally, if a blend of Feist, Sarah Barthel from Phantogram, and Regina Spektor gets you excited, Sucré is right up there. After a mini-hiatus—Stacy had a baby girl with her husband and bandmate Darren—the trio are back with their newly released five-track EP

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Loner.

It's synthier, darker, and demonstrates a heftier pop suckerpunch. See "Young and Free" above for evidence.

We asked Stacy to root around in her old photo albums for Scrapbook, Noisey's regular column where we chart the stylistic and musical evolution of an artist. Ostensibly it's an excuse to look at LOLs pics of popstars. The ultimate TBT (except it's Tuesday). Turns out Stacy's always looked pretty cool. Even during her Alanis Morrissette phase.

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I really don’t remember anything about this but I look so happy! I wasn’t a very girly-girl as a kid but I always loved ballerinas and wanted to be a dancer. I still do. If I wasn’t a musician, that’s what I would love to do—to dance.

My dad collected old Coke machines and tons of other vintage items, this is one of them that we are sitting on. This was actually taken at one of our very first shows we played at a coffee house in Tyler, Texas. I was 10 here. I notice that I’m also wearing an Adidas track suit with a ponytail. I was listening to a lot of Cranberries and Alanis Morrissette at the time. ​I remember that phase as feeling pretty confident in my style.

First of all, this picture makes me look way taller than I really am.
There’s also a black and white theme that keeps reoccurring in my photos. Elsie [Larson] made this dress for me to wear for this shoot. This was one we did for the last record when Sucré was beginning.

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I wanted to show contrast for my record, to show that there was a darker side.

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It didn’t turn out as dark as I would hope—it turned out a little more Pulp Fiction than I imagined.

Sucre's EP Loner is out now via Red Velvet