Sophie: Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides review – hyper-lush, but a touch wafty

(Transgressive)Pop is reputed to be a safe, pappy form. In the hands of producers like the Glasgow-born, LA-based Sophie, it has become a warped carnival of artifice – abrasive, while retaining cutesy tropes. Her excellent debut compilation, Product (2015), was made up of the barest, but most nagging digital melodies. Sophie’s collaborations since – Charli XCX’s Vroom Vroom EP, Bitch I’m Madonna (with Diplo), Vince Staples’s Yeah Right – have snu...

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