on Sept. 27, with first single “Reason Why” featuring BC Kingdom and Kim Petras out now. SOPHIE died in January 2021 at the age of 34 after an accidental fall in Athens, and the Benny Long-produced album was “close to completion” before her passing, according to a statement.
“SOPHIE didn’t often speak publicly of her private life, preferring to put everything she wanted to articulate in her music,” it reads. “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. “This album has always told the story of Sophie’s musical journey, a cacophony of skill and creative vision, eclipsing time and genre,” it continues. Her unique sound world moves at an emotional level, encouraging the listener to intuitively embrace the ever-evolving landscape of light and dark, soft and hard, to the end of self-love and joyful self-acceptance. Emphasizing contradictions of sound and material, Sophie’s work supersedes the pure aural to create the dimension she dreamed of.