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Dec 1, 2015Product is simply forward-thinking, flawlessly-produced electronic music that wants no more than to slap a grin on the dance floor.
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Dec 1, 2015To say that PRODUCT leaves you wanting more is an understatement, beginning and ending with EDM you can’t dance to, building and toppling all kinds of aural Legos in between.
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Dec 2, 2015Product is Sophie's debut LP, collecting four previously released singles plus four new ones in a concise introduction to a producer who has quickly crafted a style and perspective all his own.
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Dec 2, 2015Though these songs were released over the course of 18 months, Product holds together remarkably well as it captures SOPHIE's instantly addictive, ever-evolving reimagining of pop music.
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Dec 1, 2015He has cultivated an allure and a presence by, paradoxically, remaining extremely quiet for long-periods of time. He has survived through the quality of his creative vision. Product streamlines this vision into a singular "product" that although is not an essential purchase, is still essential listening.
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Dec 1, 2015The slow roll-out of singles over the past few months leading up to its release makes Product hard to consider as a singular cohesive package, but as a primer on SOPHIE, it's as good as it gets, a snapshot of an exciting artist whose tightrope walk between sweet and scary, pop and avant-garde, has yielded some of the best singles of the past few years.
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Dec 1, 2015As familiar as many of these tunes now are, Product still sounds disruptive, a sound pushing the limits of what constitutes pop and what is just an annoying noise you are inexplicably paying money for.
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Dec 1, 2015What makes SOPHIE’s music--and perhaps PC Music’s catalogue as a whole--such a blast and, also, such a controversial topic is maybe due to the fact that it can read in a variety of manners.
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Dec 8, 2015The bottom line is this: Product is a great album, even though it isn't exactly surprisingly great. Many of Sophie’s best tracks, come to find out, are the ones we’ve heard since 2013.
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Dec 8, 2015A bubblegum blowing onslaught of songs old and new, this singles collections is a brilliant mélange of style and substance. More thrills are, surely, on their way.
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UncutDec 11, 2015They never outstay their welcome or settle into anything as complacent as a groove, leaving nothing behind but a sugary residue and a feeling of faint violation. [Jan 2016, p.80]
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Dec 3, 2015PRODUCT is truly what you make of it - both highly addictive and somewhat unfinished, it leaves a good amount of open space for the listener to construct a set of vivid, imaginary images into something personal, even meaningful.
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Dec 1, 2015Though Product is billed as a singles collection, its sequencing matters like an album; the track’s placement lets it bow under the weight of all the bizarre moments that precede it, leaving gashes too deep for it to be as treacly and plasticine as its title might suggest.
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Dec 2, 2015Heard as individually and spaced many months apart, the best tracks here were diamond-hard realizations of very specific sonic ideas; placed on an album alongside songs that use similar ingredients but are markedly inferior, they rattle around in the can, perfect objects in search of the right container.
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Q MagazineJan 12, 2016Of the four new tracks, Just Like We Never Said Goodbye is the pick, evoking a John Hughes school disco scene soundtracked by Aphex Twin, though anyone feeling the package still lacks substance can select the full "Silicon" option at Sophie's webstore. [Feb 2016, p.118]
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Dec 1, 2015Curiously, the tracks that smugly seem to be going out of their way to get on your nerves aren’t the most infuriating thing about Product. The stuff detailed above makes up the rump of the album, but it’s not the whole story. There are a handful of instrumentals, which, if not terribly substantial, are at least intriguing.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 46 out of 54
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Mixed: 3 out of 54
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Negative: 5 out of 54
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Dec 3, 2015
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Jun 24, 2019One of the most innovative takes on pop and dance music. SOPHIE is really setting the standards for the future of pop.
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Jul 5, 2018