:Product (Sophie album)

Sophie debuted as a solo artist with the February 2013 single "Nothing More to Say", released via the London-based Glaswegian label Huntleys + Palmers.{{cite web |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/15703/1/sophie-%E2%80%93-nothing-more-to-say-ep |title=Sophie – Nothing More to Say EP |last=Orton |first=Karen |date=22 February 2013 |website=Dazed Digital |access-date=27 March 2021 |archive-date=8 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200808234855/https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/15703/1/sophie-%E2%80%93-nothing-more-to-say-ep |url-status=live }} Its follow-up, "Bipp"/"Elle", had been teased on SoundCloud in the previous year and was eventually released on Glaswegian label Numbers later in 2013.{{cite web |url=http://pitchfork.com/features/rising/9237-sophie/ |title=Rising: Sophie |last=Fitzmaurice |first=Larry |date=10 October 2013 |publisher=Pitchfork |access-date=7 September 2014 |archive-date=4 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140904235851/http://pitchfork.com/features/rising/9237-sophie/ |url-status=live }} The next single, "Lemonade"/"Hard", was released in August 2014.{{Cite web|last=Dunn|first=Francesca|date=31 March 2016|title=a lesson in throwing shade by nabihah iqbal|url=https://i-d.vice.com/en_us/article/mbenvy/a-lesson-in-throwing-shade-by-nabihah-iqbal|access-date=17 July 2020|website=i-D|language=en|archive-date=17 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200717173721/https://i-d.vice.com/en_us/article/mbenvy/a-lesson-in-throwing-shade-by-nabihah-iqbal|url-status=live}}

The singles collection Product was made available for preorder in September 2015. That month saw the release of "MSMSMSM",{{cite web |url=http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/09/sophie-announces-singles-collection-product-shares-msmsmsm-listen/ |title=Sophie – "Just Like We Never Said Goodbye" |date=30 September 2015 |website=Consequence of Sound |access-date=15 October 2015 |archive-date=15 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015081922/http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/09/sophie-announces-singles-collection-product-shares-msmsmsm-listen/ |url-status=live }} and "Just Like We Never Said Goodbye" followed on 15 October.{{cite web |url=http://www.stereogum.com/1837456/sophie-just-like-we-never-said-goodbye/mp3s/ |title=SOPHIE – "Just Like We Never Said Goodbye" |date=15 October 2015 |website=Stereogum |access-date=15 October 2015 |archive-date=15 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015192107/http://www.stereogum.com/1837456/sophie-just-like-we-never-said-goodbye/mp3s/ |url-status=live }} The singles "Vyzee" and "L.O.V.E." were released in November 2015 alongside Product.

{{Music ratings

| ADM = 7.3/10{{cite web|title=Product by Sophie reviews|url=http://www.anydecentmusic.com/review/7683/Sophie-Product.aspx|publisher=AnyDecentMusic?|accessdate=18 December 2019}}

| MC = 74/100{{cite web|title=Reviews for Product by Sophie|url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/product/sophie|publisher=Metacritic|accessdate=10 April 2016}}

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|last1=Phares|first1=Heather|title=Product – Sophie|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/product-mw0002891064|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=10 April 2016}}

| rev2 = Exclaim!

| rev2score = 8/10{{cite web|last1=Carlick|first1=Stephen|title=Sophie: Product|url=http://exclaim.ca/music/article/sophie-product|website=Exclaim!|date=25 November 2015|accessdate=10 April 2016}}

| rev3 = The Guardian

| rev3score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{cite news|last1=Petridis|first1=Alexis|authorlink1=Alexis Petridis|title=Sophie: Product review – forehead-slappingly obvious pop provocations from PC Music affiliate|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/nov/26/sophie-product-review-pc-music|work=The Guardian|date=26 November 2015|accessdate=10 April 2016}}

| rev4 = The Irish Times

| rev4score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite news|last1=Carroll|first1=Jim|authorlink1=Jim Carroll (journalist)|title=Sophie: Product – Album Review|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/sophie-product-album-review-1.2436585|newspaper=The Irish Times|date=20 November 2015|accessdate=17 April 2018}}

| rev5 = The Observer

| rev5score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite news|last1=Empire|first1=Kitty|authorlink1=Kitty Empire|title=Sophie: Product review – digital pop divorced from the analogue world|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/nov/29/sophie-product-review-samuel-long-digital-pop-divorced-from-analogue-world|work=The Observer|date=29 November 2015|accessdate=17 April 2018}}

| rev6 = Pitchfork

| rev6Score = 6.6/10{{cite web|last1=Richardson|first1=Mark|title=Sophie: Product|url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21212-product/|website=Pitchfork|date=2 December 2015|accessdate=10 April 2016}}

| rev7 = Q

| rev7score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite journal|title=Sophie: Product|journal=Q|issue=355|date=February 2016|page=118}}

| rev8 = Resident Advisor

| rev8score = 4.6/5{{cite web|last1=Fallon|first1=Patric|title=Sophie – Product|url=http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=18151|website=Resident Advisor|date=1 December 2015|accessdate=10 April 2016}}

| rev9 = Spin

| rev9Score = 9/10{{cite web|last1=Weiss|first1=Dan|title=Review: Sophie Rebuilds Pop in His Own Mysterious Image on 'Product'|url=http://www.spin.com/2015/11/review-sophie-product/|website=Spin|date=23 November 2015|accessdate=10 April 2016}}

| rev10 = Vice

| rev10Score = A−{{cite web|last1=Christgau|first1=Robert|authorlink1=Robert Christgau|title=Grimes Embodies Hyperfeminism Individualism for a Post-Rock Mindset|url=http://noisey.vice.com/blog/robert-christgau-grimes-sophie|website=Vice|date=26 December 2015|accessdate=10 April 2016}}

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The review aggregator website Metacritic gave the album an average score of 74 out of 100, which indicates "generally favourable reviews". Exclaim! senior editor Stephen Carlick called the record "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." The Observer described the album as "disruptive, a sound pushing the limits of what constitutes pop and what is just an annoying noise you are inexplicably paying money for." AllMusic's Heather Phares praised the album as "instantly addictive," noting similarities between the album's "uncanny valley version of pop music" and the output of the PC Music label, but describing Sophie's tracks as "even wilder, with sound design and effects that fall somewhere between Spike Jones and Aphex Twin." Sasha Geffen of Consequence of Sound called it "one of the more mischievous music objects under the current atmosphere," adding that "Product blurs the traditional subject/object power relationship of pop music, bending desire as easily as it bends waveforms".{{cite web|last1=Geffen|first1=Sasha|url=https://consequence.net/2015/11/album-review-sophie-product/|title=Sophie – Product|website=Consequence of Sound|date=1 December 2015|accessdate=10 April 2016}}

In a mixed review for The Guardian, Alexis Petridis praised "Bipp" and "Just Like We Never Said Goodbye" as "genuinely brilliant pop songs" but accused the rest of the album of "knackered posturing, tee-hee-it’s-meant-to-be-annoying irony, trite stuff about pop’s relationship to consumerism"; he concluded that Sophie was "sneering at" pop music rather than celebrating it. Mark Richardson of Pitchfork lauded the "enduring brilliance" of the album's first two singles, but was less positive about the more recent material and suggested that the album format did the tracks a disservice: "music this compressed and this syrupy is best heard in small doses, before your ear gets tired listening to it."{{cite web|last1=Richardson|first1=Mark|title=Sophie: Product|url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21212-product/|website=Pitchfork|date=2 December 2015|accessdate=10 April 2016}}

MP3 blog Gorilla vs. Bear listed the album as the 12th best of 2015.{{Cite web |last=ChrisChris |title=GORILLA VS. BEAR'S ALBUMS OF 2015 |url=https://www.gorillavsbear.net/gorilla-vs-bears-albums-of-2015/ |access-date=2022-11-18 |website=Gorilla vs. Bear |date=December 2015 |language=en}}

In 2020, Spin ranked Product the 25th best album of the decade.{{cite web |last1=B |first1=K |title=The 101 Best Albums of the 2010s |url=https://www.spin.com/2020/06/the-101-best-albums-of-the-2010s/5/ |website=Spin |access-date=2 October 2024}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Product track listing

| title1 = Bipp

| length1 = 3:00

| title2 = Elle

| length2 = 3:44

| title3 = Lemonade

| length3 = 1:58

| title4 = Hard

| length4 = 2:54

| title5 = MSMSMSM

| length5 = 3:35

| title6 = Vyzee

| length6 = 3:22

| title7 = L.O.V.E.

| length7 = 3:38

| title8 = Just Like We Never Said Goodbye

| length8 = 3:08

| total_length = 25:26

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Silicon product

| title9 = Unisil

| length9 = 2:06

| total_length = 27:32

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Japanese edition{{cite web | url=https://www.discogs.com/Sophie-Product/release/8035434 | title=Sophie (42) – Product (BRC-493) | website=Discogs | date=27 November 2015 | accessdate=10 April 2016}}

| title9 = Get Higher

| length9 = 3:00

| total_length = 28:26

}}

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