SOPHIE

gives me Smith and Mighty vibes ...particularly Anyone/Walk On

People on social media are saying that she has died :(

what no

oh dear that is very saddening ... 34 is way too young to be checking out :(

oh nooooo :(

I’m seeing this but is it confirmed?

people who were apparently close friends with her have confirmed it

unconfirmed but there's screenshots from her friends' Instagrams floating about that make it seem like the worst is true

Rest in Power you incredible human 💔 pic.twitter.com/qnxHwivvYw

— PAN (@PAN_hq) January 30, 2021

what the fuck?

oh shit that's so tragic

rip

Apparently in "a tragic accident"!?

https://mixmag.net/amp/musician-sophie-died

sorry "a sudden accident"

pic.twitter.com/8hZMkTzJ2t

— Transgressive (@transgressiveHQ) January 30, 2021

Christ, what a horrible way to go. RIP.

horrible, but in excellent queer-industrial-pioneer company. RIP, you still had so much to dazzle us with

that's awful

RIP

fucking unreal fuck this

Wow. Fuck.

oh fucking hell, she was working with Nicola Roberts?!

Very sad news regarding the passing of SOPHIE. I had the opportunity to work with her and the PC music family some years back, in awe of the imagination and rulelessness approach to creating music which is so often full of restraints. She and her creativity will be hugely missed

— Nicola Maria Roberts (@NicolaRoberts) January 30, 2021

Her set at Simple Things festival in Bristol back in 2014 blew my mind, incredibly creative producer and gone way too soon - RIP.

this is so devastating

Horrible news. So young.

this sucks so much

Wtf... :(

rip. i remember hearing bipp for the the first time and being like wtaf; still an amazing giant rubber exclamation point floating in the air. maybe the pop musician whose music seemed best to understand now now now and in any case way too young to go.

re-posting this beautiful passage on SOPHIE's work from @sashageffen's 'glitter up the dark' https://t.co/zM6u5SYDZs pic.twitter.com/PyJoTAnnTy

— 𝖊𝖌𝖌 (@emmaggarland) January 30, 2021

I remember when PC Music came on with Beautiful and Like You and I was excited by this new spin to club pop music. That stopped there, I never got into Sophie, and now it's quite strange to think that the few years since then was her career.

this is so sad :(

Really tragic news. She was such an incredible and trailblazing artist.

Jesus Christ, this is awful. RIP.

this was upsetting news and it wrecked me and my partner tonight. both of us greatly admire sophie, she poured her personality into her music and we are rlly gonna miss witnessing more of that.

This is so sad, RIP

Holy shit, what

had a good fucking cry this morning. too young, too soon.

so, so tragic. RIP. so young and had so much more to do.

listening to one of my favorite singles of the last decade, which many might not know sophie was involved in https://cocktaildamoremusic.bandcamp.com/album/sfire-digital

I wasn't intimately familiar with her work, but "Faceshopping" (song/video) was one of the most provocative things I'd encountered in pop in a long time. Seems like an important artist, terribly young to go.

I knew BIPP from our own poll a few years ago, but that's really the extent of it. This put the loss in a greater context for me.

If you don’t know the music and need a comparison Sophie had a Dilla like impact on that scene which will be felt for decades

— Rashard Du Soul (@dances) January 30, 2021

Damn this is really sad

RIP, only knew her from a few things but I really dug all those things.

This is just the fucking worst. Far too soon.

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

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— frozen reeds (@frozenreeds) January 30, 2021

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