The Sophs arrived out of the great blue yonder,” say Rough Trade co-founders Geoff Travis and Jeannette Lee of the label’s newest signing, LA six-piece The Sophs. The band’s brutal honesty, flamingly intrusive thoughts, and broad genre-spreading caught their attention instantly.Rough Trade heard creativity, variety, and a “don’t expect me to act pretty” sentiment that could land The Sophs — frontman Ethan Ramon, Sam Yuh (keyboards), Austin Parker Jones (electric guitar), Seth Smades (acoustic guitar), Devin Russ (drums), and Cole Bobbitt (bass) — on nearly any stage. “It’s rare that a demo sets your heart racing and sends you on a quest to track down its sender. But that’s what happened with Ethan Ramon,” Travis and Lee explain.