Posthumous Self-Titled SOPHIE Album Set For Release
The influential producer and musician tragically died in 2021.
By Andy Kahn Jun 25, 2024 • 2:06 pm PDT
Photo by Renata Raksha
A posthumous self-titled SOPHIE album will be released later this year. The influential producer and musician nearly completed the record prior to her untimely death in 2021 at age 34.
SOPHIE will arrive on September 27 through Future Classic/Transgressive. Sophie’s studio manager and longtime collaborator Benny Long, who helped produce her 2018 debut album Oil Of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides, was working with SOPHIE on its follow-up at the time of her accidental death. Long facilitated the completion of SOPHIE, producing the album that includes contributions from many of Sophie’s other collaborators, including Kim Petras on the lead single “Reason Why.”
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SOPHIE’s family shared the following statement regarding what will be SOPHIE’s final album:
“When we, Sophie’s family, took our first steps towards bringing this project to fruition we contacted the dear friends with whom she envisioned the album. We wrote, ‘We have been finding comfort in the music Sophie left us, it is a gift that we truly cherish as we try to find a way forward, with Sophie forever at the center of our worlds.’
“Sophie didn’t often speak publicly of her private life, preferring to put everything she wanted to articulate in her music. It feels only right to share with the world the music she hoped to release, in the belief that we can all connect with her in this, the form she loved most.
“This album has always told the story of Sophie’s musical journey, a cacophony of skill and creative vision, eclipsing time and genre. Her unique sound world moves at an emotional level, encouraging the listener to intuitively embrace the ever-evolving landscape of light and dark, soft and hard, to the end of self-love and joyful self-acceptance. Emphasizing contradictions of sound and material, Sophie’s work supersedes the pure aural to create the dimension she dreamed of.
“Now, it holds another poignant meaning, it tells a life story, from mysterious unknown, through wild clublands, to euphoric immateriality.
“Sophie gave all of herself to her music. It’s here that she can always be found.”
Charli XCX, Madonna, Vince Staples, Let’s Eat Grandma, Cashmere Cat, MØ, Flume, Arca and Shygirl are among the many artists SOPHIE worked with. Stream the SOPHIE lead single, “Reason Why” featuring Kim Petras and BC Kingdom, below:
