Sophie
Sophie 2LP vinyl

SOPHIE’s (very sadly to say) posthumous, eponymous album features 16 tracks of era-defining pop music chiselled from nerve-queering sound design and peerless songcraft, all faithfully finished up by sibling Benny Long and many friends. Tears in the dance indeed…

With clear-eyed suss the album is arranged with a cadence that sucks you in, squeezes all the glands, and slaps from start to end. Aside from the slightly overlong, deferred gratification of ‘The Dome’s Protection’ ft. Nina Kraviz, it’s trimmed with the pop concision we hoped for, and does not shirk on the delicious goop, synthetic psychoacoustic space, propulsive programming and wipe clean textural finesse we’ve been led to expect. The beat-less cinematic void of ‘Intro (The Full Horror)’ feels like an appropriately elegiac start, before the party begins with her rudely detuned take on up-to-the-second pop-rap in the aching bass discord of ‘Rawwwwww’ ft. Jozzy, and ‘Plunging Asymptote’ stars a stentorian Julianna Huxtable in a rotor-bladed rave maelstrom, establishing a see-saw sequence that sees it thru to the ketty stagger of its alien coda ‘Love Me Off Earth’ with Doss. 

NEW / Released in 2024

Tracklist:

A1 Intro (The Full Horror)

A2 Rawwwwww

A3 Plunging Asymptote

A4 The Dome's Protection

B1 Reason Why

B2 Live In My Truth

B3 Why Lies

C1 Do You Wanna Be Alive

C2 Elegance

C3 Berlin Nightmare

C4 Gallop

C5 One More Time

D1 Exhilarate

D2 Always And Forever

D3 My Forever

D4 Love Me Off Earth