SOPHIE’s posthumous final album is coming later this year

nme.com:

SOPHIE will be released later this year. Find all the details below.Three years on from the pioneering DJ, producer and hyper-pop trailblazer’s death, SOPHIE’s family and close collaborators have finalised an album she was working on at the time of her death.The first taste of the project, which will be titled ‘SOPHIE’, was released today (June 24) in the form of a new song titled ‘Reason Why’, which features BC Kingdom and Kim Petras.‘SOPHIE’ will be released September 27, via her label Transgressive Records, and is produced by her long-time collaborator Benny Long.

A statement from SOPHIE’s family read: “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.A message from SOPHIE’s family.