Listen to uplifting new posthumous SOPHIE single ‘Exhilarate’ – featuring Bibi Bourelly

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SOPHIE has been released – listen to ‘Exhilarate’ – featuring Bibi Bourelly below.The uplifting song is set to feature on SOPHIE’s second and final studio album, which will arrive on September 27 via Transgressive and Future Classic (pre-order/pre-save here).It follows on from the previously released tracks, ‘One More Time’, ‘Berlin Nightmare’, featuring musician and vocalist Evita Manji, and ‘Reason Why’ which featured Kim Petras.‘Exhilarate’ was written by SOPHIE, Bibi, and Kennedi Lykken.

A statement describes the song as “the soaring sound of two collaborators and friends giving each other a speed boost, carrying themselves to new heights together, a theme that’s central to SOPHIE.”Listen to the track here:Speaking about the forthcoming album in a statement, SOPHIE’s family wrote: “When we, Sophie’s family, took our first steps towards bringing this project to fruition we contacted the dear friends with whom she envisioned the album.

We wrote, ‘We have been finding comfort in the music Sophie left us, it is a gift that we truly cherish as we try to find a way forward, with Sophie forever at the centre of our worlds’.“Sophie didn’t often speak publicly of her private life, preferring to put everything she wanted to articulate in her music.

It feels only right to share with the world the music she hoped to release, in the belief that we can all connect with her in this, the form she loved most.”The message continued: “This album has always told the story of Sophie’s musical journey, a cacophony of skill and creative vision eclipsing time and genre.