OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES
by SOPHIE
- Type: Album
- Released: 15 June 2018
- Label: MSMSMSM, Future Classic, Transgressive
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 39:51
- Community rating: 4.26/5 from 26 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides' operates on a dramatic juxtaposition of avant-pop, industrial textures, and serene, ambient balladry, utilizing a signature production style of hyper-synthetic, tactile sound design. The album's thematic explorations of identity, artificiality, and transhumanism are amplified by the contrast between heavily processed vocals and the first-time use of SOPHIE's own largely unprocessed singing, establishing the work as a pivotal and influential statement in 21st-century electronic music.
Genres
Descriptors: deconstructed, digital, glitchy, maximalist, avant-garde
Tracklist
- It's Okay To Cry (03:50)
- Ponyboy (03:14)
- Faceshopping (03:56)
- Is It Cold In The Water? (03:32)
- Infatuation (04:40)
- Not Okay (01:48)
- Pretending (05:53)
- Immaterial (03:52)
- Whole New World/Pretend World (09:06)
Credits
- SOPHIE - lead vocals (1–3, 6 and 9), background vocals, processed vocals (7), production and mixing, creative direction
- Cecile Believe - lead vocals (2–5, 8 and 9), background vocals (1), processed vocals (7)
- Noonie Bao - background vocals (track 9)
- Banoffee - background vocals (8)
- Nick Harwood - vocals, creative direction
- Kota Banks - sampled vocals (6)
- Benjamin Long - mixing, vocal engineering, studio engineering
- Eric Wrenn - art direction
- Charlotte Wales - photography
- Julia Wagner - set design
- Coco Campbell - dress design
- Emily Schubert - design (dress design)
- B34 - design (textiles)