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Sophie: Sophie review – shiver-inducing posthumous album from the hyperpop trailblazer
Completed by her brother after her accidental death in 2021, the experimental pop producer’s second album is among the most inventive records of the year
I t’s OK to Cry, the first track released from Sophie’s equally startling official debut album, Oil Of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides(2018), revealed not only the artist’s face and her (effects-laden) singing voice for the first time, but also her identity as a trans woman. Always and Forever is a melancholy love song featuring Sophie’s longtime acquaintance Hannah Diamond(both were affiliated with AG Cook’s seminal record label and art collective PC Music). Both Plunging Asymptote and The Dome’s Protection retain this cinematic flavour, foregrounding oblique voiceovers from two very different contributors, Juliana Huxtable (another multidisciplinary American artist) and Nina Kraviz (a Russian producer and DJ); the former was previously released under the project name Analemma.
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