![]() Though it’s difficult to pin SOPHIE’s music down to a single genre, the artist once had a crack in an interview with Billboard : “advertising”. In pitched-up, helium vocals, SOPHIE’s former Motherland bandmate Marcella Dvsi puts forward a message of hope on the infectious lead hook: “I can make you feel better, if you let me”. Instead, it puts forward an insistent message of hope. Underpinned by a rubbery, amorphous synth-splutter, SOPHIE took crucial elements of pop – brightness, polish, euphoria – and moulded them into an alien dance track, dangling the promise of an enormous drop, but never going there. Upon its release in 2013, most people’s immediate reaction was a variation of, ‘What in fresh fuck is this!?’ It sounded beamed in from a distant future light-years away, and truly sounded like nothing else out there. ![]() ![]() ![]() If there’s one gateway moment that perfectly encapsulates SOPHIE’s bright, garish and thoroughly alien production style, it has to be ‘Bipp’. ![]()
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