In an unexpectedly shifting function on the high of Google’s search platform, the corporate’s Doodle at this time honours the late artist Sophie Xeon, generally known as SOPHIE.
Designed in collaboration with Sophie’s household, the Google Doodle marks the birthday of the visionary Scottish musician and producer celebrated for her experimental digital hyperpop. Sophie died in a sudden accident in 2021 on the age of 34 in Athens, Greece.
The Google Doodle additionally comes every week earlier than a closing, posthumous, self-titled album, SOPHIE, is to be launched by labels Transgressive and Future Basic. In line with Pitchfork, Sophie had nearly completed the album earlier than she died. Produced by Sophie and her brother Benny Lengthy, with contributions from mates and collaborators like Kim Petras, BC Kingdom, Evita Manji, and Popstar, the album is out Sept. 27.
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Clicking on at this time’s Doodle will immediate an animated music video set to the 2018 music “Immaterial” from her Grammy-nominated debut album Oil of Each Pearl’s Un-Insides, the one album she launched — although her 2015 assortment of singles PRODUCT is all-time.
Google posted an announcement from Sophie’s household and mates on its Doodle weblog. The detailed reflection speaks to Sophie’s love of digital music and festivals from an early age, her influences like Orbital, Moby, and The Prodigy, her emergence as a really distinctive, intuitive, and futurist artist, DJ, and producer within the 2010s, and the making of her posthumous album.
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“SOPHIE, the self-titled follow-up album, though always intended as a more accessible, more ‘pop’ sounding record, undoubtedly maintains Sophie’s uncompromising and infinitely ambitious outlook,” the assertion reads. “Made with her brother and many of her closest friends and collaborators, the album sits somewhere between a SOPHIE live show in the clouds, a massive party in her recording studio and the sweatiest club you’ve ever been to hosted by SOPHIE and friends.”
“The future has always been a big part of Sophie, and we hope Sophie continues to be a big part of the future,” the assertion concludes. “As always with Sophie, exactly what comes next and what shape it takes remains to be seen. One thing is for sure, there is a lot more still to come.”
“The future has always been a big part of Sophie, and we hope Sophie continues to be a big part of the future.”
Many are reacting to the Google Doodle within the feedback of the Quick, with followers discovering it a lovely shock on a tech platform.
“Never expected a Google Doodle to bring tears to my eyes, but here we are. Love and miss you forever, Sophie,” wrote @hoby7439.
“i miss her everyday, rest in peace our hyperpop queen,” wrote @VULNICURRA.
“what a beautiful treat to see this on my google homepage! Sophie is missed! i listen to her music every day,” wrote @laurenisalltherage.
