SOPHIE’s brother and long-time collaborator Benny Long on the posthumous self-titled album

Australian exclusive: Benny Long chats to triple j's Lucy Smith about how he and SOPHIE brought the posthumous self-titled (and final) album to life.

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00:00 Intro
00:31 ‘SOPHIE’ is a community
01:26 On finishing the album with SOPHIE’s guidance
02:31 SOPHIE’s archives and her posthumous self-titled album
03:32 SOPHIE and Benny’s shared references and the songs they loved growing up
03:49 Orbital
03:55 Autechre
04:18 Moby
04:36 Obscure ’80’s references
05:06 Working in the family home
05:48 Important childhood memories of festivals and raves
06:55 SOPHIE and her collaborators
07:56 BC Kingdom and joy
08:08 The four parts to ‘SOPHIE’
09:53 How ‘SOPHIE’ lyrically captures the experience of COVID
10:59 ‘Elegance’ and risk taking on ‘SOPHIE’
12:12 How the creative process changed between ‘Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides’ and ‘SOPHIE’
13:20 SOPHIE’s legendary synthesizing
14:00 More collaborators in the final mixing and mastering stages - Alex Evans, AG Cook, Finn Keane, Charli XCX, Easyfun, PC Music + more
15:10 How Benny came to feel the project was finished