SOPHIE shaped a generation. From the release of debut single “NOTHING MORE TO SAY / EEEHHH” on Huntleys and Palmers 9-odd years ago through to last year’s glamorous, glorious HEAV3N SUSPENDED quarantine livestream, the Scottish-born producer never stopped creating sounds and feelings that were powerful enough to change people.
SOPHIE’s music was sometimes a portal into another world, but more often provided a clearer look into our world. Songs like “Immaterial” and “HARD” allow us to arbitrate the immovable things that define the world around us — to turn the texturally hard and cold into something inviting and alive, the body into a canvas, life into a work of art and empathy, as opposed to just a negotiation between mind and body.
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