A posthumous SOPHIE album is to be released later this year.
Though the full tracklist for the self-titled record hasn’t yet been revealed, it’s said to feature contributions from several artists with whom SOPHIE worked before her death in 2021. Kim Petras and BC Kingdom appear on the lead cut, ‘Reason Why’, which you can listen to below.
The album was close to completion before SOPHIE’s death, a press release said, and has been arranged and completed by her brother, Benny Long, who was also involved in the making of the artist’s 2018 debut album, Oil Of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides.
In a statement shared alongside the announcement of SOPHIE, the late artist’s family said: “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.”
Transgressive / Future Classic will release SOPHIE on September 27, 2024.
