Sophie had just released “Unisil,” a jittery, crashing outtake from “Product,” on Thursday. In 2018, her label, Numbers, sent Autechre the electronic stems that had been used to create her singles on “Product” in 2020, Autechre sent back a remix of “Bipp,” which was released on Jan. Unlike most electronic producers, Sophie did not want her work remixed - except, she declared in 2015, by Autechre, the English electronic duo formed in 1987 that had strongly influenced her music. Traditional family models and structures of control disappear.” In an interview with Paper magazine, Sophie said: “An embrace of the essential idea of transness changes everything, because it means there’s no longer an expectation based on the body you were born into, or how your life should play out and how it should end. The song opened her full-length debut album, “Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides,” which spanned harsh, aggressive electronics and ethereal meditation, with lyrics touching on identity, artifice and yearning. In 2017, with the release of the single “It’s OK to Cry,” Sophie came out as transgender. “There’s no need to view something commercial as necessarily bad.” “Pop should be about finding new forms for feelings and communicating them in ways which talk about the world around us right now,” Sophie told The Times in 2015. Cook and Sophie would both produce tracks for Charli XCX, and in 2015 Sophie’s sound came through clearly when she was among the producers of the Madonna single “Bitch I’m Madonna.” They shared a visual sensibility as well, flaunting shiny, brightly colored, surreal forms. Cook, which was also making music that combined bubble-gum pop impact with avant-garde sound design, scrambling distinctions between pleasure and irritation, commerciality and exploration.
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Living in London, Sophie found kindred spirits in the emerging PC Music collective spearheaded by A.G. Sophie’s early singles were collected on the album “Product” in 2015. Sophie began releasing music on SoundCloud, and her work drew immediate attention with the 2013 single “Bipp” - a sparse, insistent track with a piercing high vocal that declared, “However you’re feeling I can make you feel better” - and with the two-minute 2014 song “Lemonade,” which would soon be used in a McDonald’s advertisement. Then you use those molecules to build new forms, mixing and reappropriating those raw materials, and of course, it should be bloody delicious.” “It’s about getting to the molecular level of a particular sound - realizing what that sound actually is made of, and why it behaves a certain way when processed or cooked. In a 2013 interview with Pitchfork, she compared music to molecular gastronomy. Where it spins you upside down, dips you in water, flashes strobe lights at you, takes you on a slow incline to the peak, and then drops you vertically down a smokey tunnel, then stops with a jerk, and your hair is all messed up, and some people feel sick, and others are laughing - then you buy a key ring.” In a 2012 interview with Bomb magazine, she said, “It would be extremely exciting if music could take you on the same sort of high-thrill three-minute ride as a theme park roller coaster. Sophie’s musical ideas were clear from the start.
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