SOPHIE

Managed to snag a video of her Teragram show before it got flagged on Youtube, and suffice to say if she has an album on the way t' the material is there for it to be a killer.
Also her live thing is coming to NYC in Februrary 2018, which will probably have even more new stuff on the setlist:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sophie-elsewhere-hall-tickets-41120273846?_eboga=112619228.1512754472
(Watch out for returned tickets, I guess?)

I saw her live on Friday night and it was pretty mediocre - a trance breakdown that went nowhere for a good ten mins and then some bouncing David Guetta nonsense that used interesting sound design to disguise a lack of innovation

bad track

why are ppl still referring to sophie as 'her'? i thought it was established years ago that sophie is a guy?

oh dear

She uses female pronouns.

I think it's a pretty great track.

xp

yep and yep

oh wow i'm sorry, i shoulda googled before asking

oh no way, i didn't realize it was her in the "it's okay to cry" video

all good dyl

so who's excited

for

this presumably

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC8h4HnWyys&feature=youtu.be

:/ sry

anyways there is a full album stream on youtube

Wow Ponyboy is f-ing intense. Autechresque.

the album is good but not as good as i'd been led to expect

The sequencing on this is absolutely brilliant! That's my first takeaway.

I'm excited to check this out today

this is still not for me

"is it cold in the water"/"infatuation" are good though

also enjoying the steve roach track in the middle of this

everything else is variously annoying

I wish Lex was here for this.

Really like the back half of this!

(as everyone else has said, the front half is very familiar by now)

I love most of this but Ponyboy, Faceshopping and Whole New World (Pretend World is good though) don't really do much for me

so much better than Product which was such a disappointment - she had so many good unreleased tracks she'd played live and in mixes but none of them made it onto that

Murgatroid otm

I need a Lex take

I love most of this but Ponyboy, Faceshopping and Whole New World (Pretend World is good though) don't really do much for me

srsly

*PLUG* I singled those three songs out in my review *PLUG*


https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/review-sophies-oil-of-every-pearls-un-insides-w521591

Not for me either. Ponyboy is way too maximal in reflection ]>which yeah I know that’s pc music. But don’t ride with maximal shit much now

as far as the 'heavier' tracks go i love the sound design on them but grooves they settle into don't do much for me? maybe I'd like them more with less of the vocals on Faceshopping and Ponyboy?

Immaterial is my favourite thing she's done since Bipp and the whole sequence from Is It Cold In The Water? to it is fantastic.

Wow those are literally the three songs that make this album for me.
― circa1916, Sunday, June 17, 2018 9:54 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

srsly

― imago, Sunday, June 17, 2018 10:34 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm aware that i don't *get* sophie

ufo otm

yo check out the thread i just started ft. even better industrial pop abt being transgendered than sophie

i don't "get" sophie either & not sure how comparable they are but that out of flux w the universe comp is really good

the black dresses album is the one rly, it's unbelievable. i liked it plenty at first but tt got me to hear it again and it's just kind of amazing

Fans of industrial pop check out Cecilia’s record. Zero traction here

as far as the 'heavier' tracks go i love the sound design on them but grooves they settle into don't do much for me? maybe I'd like them more with less of the vocals on Faceshopping and Ponyboy?

I basically agree with ufo here, those two tracks outstay their welcome a bit, the rest of the album is really great though and I say that as a PC Music non-fan (this is the first thing I've liked by SOPHIE since 'Nothing More to Say').

i like the way "faceshopping" mutates in the last minute or two.

Love this record

Ponyboy incites dancing like a nurse from silent hill

OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES is everything i've ever wanted from an electronic record, personally. it feels utilitarian, purposeful but maintains fun and danceable. it's SOPHIE's eyes of the world; sonically it's genderfluid, dysphoric, but encapsulates more -- transhumanism, intrapersonal technology and sexuality... and it remains succinct throughout, never self-indulgent... SOPHIE is the pop star we needed!

IS It Cold In the Water is one of the most gorgeous songs ive ever heard

OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES is everything i've ever wanted from an electronic record, personally. it feels utilitarian, purposeful but maintains fun and danceable. it's SOPHIE's eyes of the world; sonically it's genderfluid, dysphoric, but encapsulates more -- transhumanism, intrapersonal technology and sexuality... and it remains succinct throughout, never self-indulgent... SOPHIE is the pop star we needed!

― meaulnes, Saturday, June 23, 2018 3:53 AM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

love how Infatuation takes the vocals from Is It Cold in the Water and backwards masks them into infinity - beautiful pair of songs, the latter builds and never really takes off and the former drops in beats but still feels like it never really drops - a master class in ratcheting up tension

Her show tonight in Vancouver was awesome (albeit way too short). She was playing this ambient track, then all of a sudden it turned into Ponyboy and the crowd just lost their shit over it. An audience member in a unicorn costume came out of nowhere too, which i figured was pretty fitting for the track

can't believe there was a unicorn

it was a cotton onesie thing, so i assume he was drenched in sweat afterwards

Awesome

doesn't seem like the oil remix album has been mentioned so. more like a techno mix + ambient stretch, mb worth checking out even if (like me) you weren't hot on the original album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG9NBZs9ow0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdpSsK8uPbw

Bipp (Autechre Mx)

up on Spotify etc

https://boomkat.com/products/bipp-autechre-mx

brain asplode

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/vince-staples-sophie-tribute-1122824/

Great piece with a ton of quotes from folks

https://pitchfork.com/features/article/how-sophies-music-inspired-a-generation-of-underground-artists/

still obsessing over this incredible livestream mix

lovely tribute from A G Cook today

http://agcook.com/msmsmsm/

Beautiful, thanks for linking

what a wonderful tribute.

Great read, ty

Yeah that was a beautiful piece of writing.

Very much so

;_;

Indeed thanks for sharing this. Heartfelt writing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPlxlyFsh2w

posthumous album coming 27/9, it's supposed to be an album she was almost finished with at the time of her death. i don't really love this track - it doesn't quite hit the way it needs to? - but i'm looking forward to the rest of it. i think a lot of that material is already floating around online from her live sets but i haven't listened to it in ages

is there a version of this song without Kim Petras

(applies to pretty much everything with Kim Petras)

the track on brat about SOPHIE is really touching and human. this line in particular:

Your sounds, your words live on, endless
When I make songs, I remember
Things you'd suggest, "Make it faster"
Would you like this one? (Maybe just a little bit?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9k1CR4LBjk