PLUGIN WEEK 2025: Four years ago, modern music lost a titanic innovator. Taken from us at the peak of her career, Sophie Xeon died in a tragic accident less than a decade after her dazzlingly progressive music hit the mainstream like a fluorescent paintball, its explosive splatter irrevocably transforming the face of contemporary pop. This seismic impact has resounded long after Sophie’s passing through an enduring influence that remains audible across the worlds of commercial and underground music.
However, Sophie’s legacy was to continue, with the release of SOPHIE, her second and final album, a project almost entirely produced before her death and completed by her brother and collaborator Ben Long, which was released in September 2024.
