A brand new posthumous new single from SOPHIE has been launched – you possibly can take heed to ‘Berlin Nightmare’ under.
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The music options musician and vocalist Evita Manji, and can seem on SOPHIE’s second and closing studio album.
Introduced final month, the self-titled document is because of arrive on September 27 by way of Transgressive. It was co-produced by the late DJ, producer and hyper-pop trailblazer’s long-time collaborator Benny Lengthy.
‘Berlin Nightmare’ is a darker and grittier preview of the forthcoming LP, following on from the BC Kingdom and Kim Petras-featuring single ‘Motive Why’. Tune in right here:
Talking in regards to the new album in a press release, SOPHIE’s household wrote: “Once we, Sophie’s household, took our first steps in direction of bringing this challenge to fruition we contacted the expensive pals with whom she envisioned the album. We wrote, ‘We’ve got been discovering consolation within the music Sophie left us, it’s a reward that we really cherish as we attempt to discover a manner ahead, with Sophie ceaselessly on the centre of our worlds’.
“Sophie didn’t typically communicate publicly of her personal life, preferring to place every thing she wished to articulate in her music. It feels solely proper to share with the world the music she hoped to launch, within the perception that we will all join along with her on this, the shape she cherished most.”
The message continued: “This album has all the time advised the story of Sophie’s musical journey, a cacophony of ability and artistic imaginative and prescient eclipsing time and style. Her distinctive sound world strikes at an emotional stage, encouraging the listener to intuitively embrace the ever-evolving panorama of sunshine and darkish, gentle and onerous, to the top of self-love and joyful self-acceptance.
“Emphasising contradictions of sound and materials, Sophie’s work supersedes the pure aural to create the dimension she dreamed of. Now, it holds one other poignant that means, it tells a life story, from mysterious unknown, by way of wild clublands, to euphoric materiality.”
The assertion concluded: “Sophie gave all of herself to her music. It’s right here that she will all the time be discovered.”
SOPHIE died in a fall in Athens, Greece in January 2021. She was 34 years previous.
As a producer, SOPHIE rose to prominence as a part of the pioneering pop manufacturing staff PC Music within the mid-2010s, working with the likes of A.G. Prepare dinner and Charli XCX. The latter paid tribute to the producer on her newest album ‘Brat’, by way of the music ‘So I’.
The monitor explores Charli’s regrets in regards to the insecurities that prevented her from working as carefully with SOPHIE as she wished to. “There was numerous distance between us as a result of I used to be in awe of her and wished to impress her,” she advised The Face earlier this yr.
Elsewhere, St. Vincent paid homage to SOPHIE on her newest album ‘All Born Screaming’. The singer-songwriter – aka Annie Clark – was moved to jot down the monitor ‘Sweetest Fruit’ after studying an article in regards to the producer’s tragic dying.
‘SOPHIE’ will function the follow-up to 2018’s ‘Oil Of Each Pearl’s Un-Insides’. In a four-star overview, NME praised the document for “crossing boundaries of pop music and chasing transcendence”. It learn: “SOPHIE achieves the uncommon feat of constructing summary, tough digital music that hits you straight within the coronary heart.”
