SOPHIE

https://soundcloud.com/msmsmsm/sophie-hard

Better than Lemonade, I suppose. Still no Bipp.

omg this is waaay better (than lemonade)

when people say they really love "nothing more to say", do they actually mean the song "nothing more to say" or the youtube mashup of "nothing more to say / eeehhh" which i can't seem to find a purchasable mp3 of? (and which sounds different to the individual "nothing more to say" and "eeehhh" tracks?)

That mashup was by Sophie, and was meant to be put up for free download on Annie Mac's soundcloud page:
https://soundcloud.com/annie-mac-presents/free-music-monday-sophie
Personally I prefer it to either track on their own.

Now a nice repayment would be if someone happened to have a rip of the Just Jam set / "Hey QT" lying around. Apparently it's a collab with A.G. Cook and based on the obvious PC Music influence on these new Sophie tracks a teamup between the two of them should go heavenly.

Personally I prefer it to either track on their own.

So do I, which is why I'm wondering whether that's the track people are talking about when they profess their love for "Nothing More To Say".

It's not just a sandwiching together of the two songs - I think the frequency and bpm is slightly different too.

when people say they really love "nothing more to say", do they actually mean the song "nothing more to say" or the youtube mashup of "nothing more to say / eeehhh" which i can't seem to find a purchasable mp3 of

I'm pretty sure people mean the widely-available original rather than the hard-to-find mashup. The original Nothing More To Say is his best track IMO. Not heard any of the recent ones though.

I'm pretty sure people mean the widely-available original rather than the hard-to-find mashup

The mashup has nearly 50k plays on youtube / 126k plays on soundcloud and was featured on Pitchfork. If anything I'd say it's the other way around.

both new tracks are horrible

Agreed. These will clear many dance floors.

Love the idea more than the execution. The whole thing is starting to remind me of Nadia Oh done joylessly.

So the Hey QT rollout has apparently begun officially:
https://soundcloud.com/pcmus/drinkqt/
Complete with a typical PC Music web 3.0 page accomapniment:
http://WWW.DRINKQT.COM/
...and a Boiler Room livestream at a party to celebrate the new Hudson Mohawke EP:
http://boilerroom.tv/session/ray-ban-005/
I'll be happy to finally get some officially-sanctioned set footage, regardless of any new material that's played.

Awwwwesome ta

belatedly listening to lemonade for the first time. it could actually be really good if it stuck to the hyper-sacharine-delirium-pop segment and got rid of the rest. but otherwise, its just a very weird throwaway. keep thinking there must be a better edit of it somewhere and that this is just a (terrible) teaser. hard is a tiny bit better though the vocals are still on a ting tings level of irritation and it just seems like someone is trying too hard/thinking theyre being hilariously challenging. reminds me a bit of raffertie.

https://soundcloud.com/viette-2/gucci-mane-lemonade-prod-sophie-riley-lake

lol nooooo

yikes that is horrible

aw it's just a jokey mashup but dude is an amazing producer otherwise, trust me

Whole QT track available now:
http://pitchfork.com/news/56465-sophie-and-ag-cook-are-qt-announce-debut-single-hey-qt/

Very Hannah Diamond-esque

So for those of you who missed it the Boiler Room stream was a lot of fun (excluding the long gaps where setup for the next act took too long and we were stuck with a minimal dj / random shots of the club accompanied by downtempo music). The "Sophie" performance featured some muscular girl up at the decks playing new tunes while the genuine article flitted about dressed as a security guard; the new stuff was pretty great, generally really uptempo (though I suppose he wouldn't unveil the downtempo stuff at a club gig). Also none of them ran under 2 minutes. :)
I've excerpted a few of my faves:
http://www46.zippyshare.com/v/27521424/file.html
http://www46.zippyshare.com/v/69964662/file.html
http://www55.zippyshare.com/v/9516052/file.html

The QT segment of the show was basically an in-club ad for the "energy elixir" (played over the speakers while she sat on a couch reading a magazine) followed by "Hey QT" - interestingly she seemed to be singing along even though her mic wasn't turned on. I've got that audio too:
http://www46.zippyshare.com/v/31601250/file.html

Is the 'Get the the club at 2am / I'm gonna bang loads of men' track one of those? That was incredible.

No, that's a different one - a remix of GFOTY's "Friday Night", the original of which I absolutely love:
https://soundcloud.com/gfoty/friday-night
I've also got the clip from his set (excerpted for your enjoyment):
http://www37.zippyshare.com/v/12262819/file.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uERIXLWeik0

Really, no posts yet on how fucking awesome and mental this is? :)

ragged af, down

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

massive loss. Rip

:( rip

I came across this spotify playlist entitled "every SOPHIE produced song on this damn site'

This is so sad. Pretty much my favourite producer of the 10s, and a genuinely exceptional performer.

The show at Heaven from just before the album (of which there are excerpts on Youtube) was thrilling. Not just the spectacle and fierce performance, but the atmosphere in the room was one of sheer joy. What SOPHIE represented for everyone there, in terms of owning their identity, made it such a celebratory night and the mixture of ecstatic pogoing and vogueing triggered by 'Immaterial' was something I'll always remember.

Outside of the playlist Fetchboy just linked, there's an incredible amount of unreleased and leaked material floating around. These are some of my favourites:

Ooh - this pre-dates or is of the same era as Bipp, you can hear the echoes throughout:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKiX91tZv50

Psalms (with fka Twigs) - this was leaked this year though must date from earlier, it was nommed in this year's tracks poll but as it isn't on Spotify I guess most people missed it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sGu4yb_R_o

Banoffee - Count On You - not a leak or unreleased, but I don't think it's widely known that this is a SOPHIE co-production, just a really pretty song and the one I've been listening to most today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BeBn4mCnP4

Astonishing sounds and delicious melodies, what a bright streak in the heavens, what a beacon. I’m sad for her and sad for us that we missed what’s next, and what’s ten steps down the road. She made pop new for me again.

lovely posts

the first time i heard "bipp" was revelatory

pic.twitter.com/zqOPhluF7j

— frozen reeds (@frozenreeds) January 30, 2021

Gutted seeing the news this morning. She was just getting started... fuck

@nilerodgers

#RestInPower SOPHIE! You were one of the most innovative, dynamic, and warm persons I had the pleasure of working with at 2019 ⁦
@southbankcentre
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Es_JjdRXUAQYPIZ?format=jpg&name=medium

Oh! It’s THIS SOPHIE. :( I overheard some girls earlier in the supermarket talking about how an artist called Sophie died in an accident and I didn’t connect who they were talking about. This sucks.

she should've seen the day she would be talked about in all of the supermarkets.

appreciating the music shares and messages here today

We lost SOPHIE way too soon at just 34 years old. Thanks to Eavan McNeil for assembling this 68-song Spotify playlist of every track she produced. RIPP https://t.co/i8zN0Pi7ue pic.twitter.com/kfbr3WwhZi

— Zachary Whittenburg (@trailerpilot) January 30, 2021

Maybe it’s the mexican side of me, but if you want to smile remembering SOPHIE check out Vince Staples twitter account for some warm anecdotes of her.

ha, sweet

thread of some of SOPHIE’S unreleased gems 💄

— SOPHIE UPDATES (@MSMSMSMUPDATES) January 31, 2021

here's a bunch of unreleased tracks & rarities

I had never really understood her music-- just felt like it wasn't my thing. Yesterday I listened to a bunch of her songs, and felt profound grief that I'd somehow missed something before, and that I wouldn't be able to enjoy more in the future. Then, last night, I had a lucid dream where I was a helper to a neuroatypical adult who was trying to communicate with their friend, another neuroatypical adult, through a Plexiglas screen, and the both of them were crying because they couldn't communicate properly, then 'Its Okay to Cry' started playing in the dream and I woke up sobbing.

Something in the air. Horrible news.

Truly horrible news. She was in my dreams last night too.

Those Vince Staples anecdotes were a help. Thanks for the heads up.

still can’t believe this. Rest Peacefully Sophie. 💔 🙏🏿 pic.twitter.com/OsYGdCKgkz

— Rihanna (@rihanna) February 1, 2021

Some short thoughts.

Currently rolling through that Spotify playlist <3

Great thoughts Ned, and loved the quote you singled out, the desire "to make the brightest, most intense, engaging thing." It started me thinking who else was doing that and the most obvious answer (apart from AG Cook of course) was Yasutaka Nakata (Perfume, Capsule, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu etc.). Does anyone know if SOPHIE and Nakata interacted? I was thrilled when Autechre did the first ever SOPHIE remix.
Also apologies for my use of "her" to refer to the artist upthread, I learned from Philip Sherburne's brilliant p4k piece that SOPHIE disliked both gendered and nonbinary pronouns. https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/remembering-sophies-radical-futurism/

and had I not been such a lazy git, I would have found this almost first up
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/47/8e/e7/478ee7e50301e7aa827eb6293b597938.jpg

wow, that pic! i was living in Nagoya in 2010 and made to see Capsule play a live show in Osaka back then. so glad i did. i never imagined a SOPHIE - Capsule connection. and i wondered what the hell happened to Capsule... now i know.

thank u Ned for that writing. i'd never seen the video, it made me cry and that's ok :)))

/haxxZ ilx0rz serverz, replaces all lower-case renderings w/ {"SOPHIE"}, removes pronouns

Thank you.

All the subsequent/related posts are lovely to read.

pic.twitter.com/got6zIqv2p

— Art (@_artsartsarts) February 2, 2021

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— Charli (@charli_xcx) February 2, 2021

this right here is the absolute shit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXPSe57pOss

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.