The world first met gyrofield because of a joke. It was 2019, and Kiana Li was a teenage music producer making beats on her computer from her bedroom in Hong Kong. She had 2,000 Soundcloud followers. “That was a good time,” she says with a smile. “I was feeling like …
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How do you honor the legacy of an artist as brilliantly challenging as Sophie? In her lifetime, the Scottish producer rewired pop music by prioritizing the search for “the loudest, brightest thing” above all else. Her legendary run of hard-edged club singles in the early 2010s, followed by her impossibly …
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In celebration of what would have been Sophie‘s 38th birthday, the influential avant-pop producer’s estate has unveiled the track list for her upcoming posthumous album, Sophie. Out Sept. 27, the record will include 16 tracks with featured appearances from a wide variety of artists including Juliana Huxtable, Nina Kraviz, Hannah …
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Ahead of the release of Sophie’s self-titled album this September, the late avant-pop producer’s family has shared two more songs from the posthumous LP. The two new tracks are “One More Time” featuring Popstar and the electro-pop instrumental “Berlin Nightmare,” a collaboration with Evita Manji. Sophie’s family previously shared “Reason …
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A posthumous Sophie album is coming. On Monday, the producer’s family announced they will be releasing some of the late, avant-pop artist’s unreleased music on an album named Sophie, out Sept. 27, more than three years after her tragic death. Alongside news of the album, they also released the project’s …
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When Caroline Polachek joined Dua Lipa for select dates on the Future Nostalgia tour, there was no room for error. In a recent interview with Pitchfork, the singer compared the run-of-show to a “military operation,” one in which every second of her half-hour long set had to count. Convinced she …
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