The music of Sophie lives on via her self-titled remaining album, which stunned dropped late Wednesday.
Launched via Future Traditional and Transgressive, the posthumous SOPHIE assortment is stacked with collaborations with shut mates, and homes previously-released cuts “Purpose Why” (that includes Kim Petras & BC Kingdom), “Berlin Nightmare” that includes Evita Manji, “One Extra Time” ft. Popstar, “Exhilarate” ft. Bibi Bourelly, and “My Eternally” ft. Cecile Consider.
Hannah Diamond labored with Sophie on the album observe “At all times and Eternally,” recorded in London through the 2020 lockdown. “It ended up being the final ever day that I noticed her in particular person,” Diamond remarks.
Sophie, an essential determine in underground pop and dance music, died the next yr, on the age of 34.
“Our lovely Sophie handed away this morning after a horrible accident,” learn a press release on the time, issued by Future Traditional. “True to her spirituality she had climbed as much as watch the complete moon and by chance slipped and fell.”
Born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland, Sophie Xeon inherited an curiosity in dance and digital music from their father, and began recording their very own music at a younger age. Within the early ’10s, they struck up an affiliation with just a few artists on the PC Music label, quickly to be on the experimental pop vanguard, and launched their debut single “Nothing Extra to Say” in 2013.
Over the subsequent decade, Sophie appeared on and helmed a slew of recordings, together with 2017’s “It’s Okay to Cry,” finally named by Billboard as the most effective songs of the yr.
Following Sophie’s passing, pop cult favourite Rina Sawayama remembered the late artist as “the sweetest – an icon and a visionary,” including, “the world and our group has misplaced a wonderful soul.”
SOPHIE is launched as a double vinyl, with all sides representing a distinct part of the album. The wax is available in commonplace black in addition to translucent neon pink, clear, and silver and is accessible to order right here.
Stream SOPHIE in full beneath.
