SOPHIE ’s influence on music is evident not only in her production credits with artists like Madonna , Charli XCX , Vince Staples and Arca , but also in her widely-acclaimed independent work like the Grammy-nominated OIL OF EVERY PEARL’S UN-INSIDES. At the three year mark since the artist’s sudden passing in 2021, SOPHIE’s family hopes to honor her legacy with a posthumous album of 16 unreleased tracks. Ethereal ambient compositions comprised of reverberating synths and spoken words cushion the raw metallic crashes and pounding bass of her experimental club tracks.
The duality between highly-emotional ambient works and experimental techno pop songs speaks to the boundary breaking ethos of SOPHIE. Tracks like “Punging Asymptote (feat. Juliana Huxtable)” showcase the ultra-synthesized and overdriven sonic signatures of SOPHIE’s production.
“The Dome’s Protection (feat. Nina Kravis)” is stripped back comprising only droning synths and the voice of Kravis’ inter-dimensional guidance. In “Reason Why (feat.
Kim Petras and BC Kingdom)” listeners get a taste of SOPHIE’s affinity for bubbly synth-pop. The self-titled title subverts the conventional producer-performer dynamic, instead bringing SOPHIE front-and-center as the architect of her own sonic universe. While it’s uncertain if fans will get to hear any more new material from the late artist from , her presence lives on in her music and her monumental impact on the industry.
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