A new project organised by fans will aim to fully document the career of the late and highly influential producer and musician SOPHIE.
The pioneering Scottish artist, who consistently pushed the boundaries of electronic experimentation, passed away in January 2021 in a tragic accident in Athens.
She has been cited as a key influence by the likes of Charli XCX, Vince Staples, FKA twigs, Jack Antonoff and Sam Smith, but she only released two studio albums during her life – 2015’s ‘Product’ and 2018’s ‘Oil Of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides‘.
Now, an online preservation project has been set up by fans of SOPHIE in an effort to fully document all of the artist’s work, including an archive of live sets, official releases, photoshoots and interviews.
The site – dubbed WHOLENEW.WORLD – is currently a work-in-progress, but already includes an extensive selection of live sets from as far back as 2010 and all the way up to 2020.
The site’s organisers have said they will not host leaked material, but they will include information about them “in an attempt to quell the rampant misinformation that exists around some of her work”.
It is not affiliated with SOPHIE’s estate or former labels and they say no revenue will be generated by the site, while all of its contents will remain freely available.
They have also asked any fans who attended a SOPHIE show or worked with her, or have any information about her lost SoundCloud songs, should contact them here.
When her death was announced, SOPHIE’s team hailed her as “a pioneer of a new sound” and an “icon of liberation”. Christine and the Queens called SOPHIE “a stellar producer, a visionary, a reference, adding that the artist “rebelled against the narrow, normative society”. Bring Me the Horizon frontman Oli Sykes, meanwhile, described SOPHIE’s work as “incredibly stimulating” and “pure proof that any genre can still be pushed in untapped ways”, concluding: “It was impossible not to be stimulated by Sophie once acquainted.”
In 2024, a posthumous self-titled album was released, comprising music that she was working on at the time of her death. In a three-star review, NME wrote: “There’s enough diamond material shining in the dirt to make this one of the most inventive posthumous albums that’s been released in recent times – it’s just a shame that the album doesn’t fully execute SOPHIE’s unique vision. But perhaps that’s one more reason to fully treasure what we have left of her, and to do justice to the mark she’s left on pop forever.”
Charli XCX took time to thank SOPHIE during her sweep at the 2025 BRIT Awards, while a scholarship for emerging female, trans and non-binary creatives has been set up in her memory.
