British producer Sophie’s ceaseless innovation had pop singers either imitating her or hitting her up to collaborate.
British producer Sophie was one of the most influential figures of ’10s pop. She gained a cult following in 2014 with the releases of– futuristic tracks beamed in from a faraway galaxy, threaded with sounds and textures at once cold and colourful, alien and beguiling. Her ceaseless innovation would eventually have swaths of the pop landscape either imitating her or hitting her up to collaborate.
The structure of the record is fairly conventional. The first few tracks conjure black holes in deep space with oppressive, droning sounds lending a funereal quality. By the time, featuring Kim Petras and BC Kingdom, arrives in a sheeny spurt of mid-tempo, mid-energy hyperpop, it feels like opening the blinds after days of mourning. The song kicks off a cartoony, playful run of tracks before the record veers into techno territory that’s darker but not aggressively so.
and whose voice approximates Rihanna’s on an empowerment anthem treated with enough Sophie-esque flourishes – atonal bass blobs, a faint, ever-present buzz – to render it refreshingly weird.is pastel-toned and gauzy, with Hannah Diamond’s helium coo sending the tribute heavenwards.
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