Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides

Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides (stylised in all caps) is the debut studio album by Scottish recording artist and producer Sophie and the only studio album to be released during the artist's lifetime. It was released on 15 June 2018, through Transgressive, Future Classic and Sophie's own label, MSMSMSM.[8][9] According to one source, the title may be a variant spelling of the phrase "I love every person's insides".[10] Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides was met with widespread acclaim by critics and received a nomination for the Best Dance/Electronic Album at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards.[11] A remix album was released in July 2019.

Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
Studio album by
Sophie
Released15 June 2018
StudioSoapworld
Genre
Length39:55
Label
ProducerSophie
Sophie chronology
Product
(2015)		 Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
(2018)		 Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides Non-Stop Remix Album
(2019)
Singles from Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
  1. "It's Okay to Cry"
    Released: 23 October 2017[5]
  2. "Ponyboy"
    Released: 8 December 2017[6]
  3. "Faceshopping"
    Released: 16 February 2018[7]

Singles

In promotion of the album three singles were released off the album—"It's Okay to Cry", "Ponyboy", and "Faceshopping".[12] The first single, "It's Okay to Cry", was released alongside a self-directed music video of Sophie, naked, singing directly to the camera in a studio setting behind digital skies and rainbow.[13][14] The video marked Sophie's "first proper public appearance."[14]

The second single, "Ponyboy", was released in December 2017. For its music video, Sophie worked with performance collective FlucT to choreograph "a dramatized ménage à trois".[15] The third and final single, "Faceshopping", deals with gender, beauty, and the body and features vocals by Cecile Believe.[14] Its accompanying music video distorts 3D renderings of Sophie's face, intercut with strobing images.[16]

Music

The opening track "It's Okay to Cry" is a ballad that begins with Sophie softly and intimately singing with 80s-style synthesizer arrangements, before the song intensifies and Sophie's vocals crescendo to a wail.[13] It was Sophie's first song as a singer-songwriter, and its lyrics and music video were taken as Sophie publicly coming out as transgender.[13][17] "Ponyboy" and "Faceshopping" are playfully aggressive and hyperactive tracks that make use of pitch shifting and have themes of transgender identity and transhumanism.[17][18] Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides incorporates an eclectic array of genres and styles including avant-pop, industrial music, glitch music, electro, ambient, dance-pop, EDM, ambient house, industrial techno, drone, synth-pop, Eurodance, contemporary R&B and dream pop.[2][1][19][3][4][20][21][22][23]

Critical reception
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?8.2/10[24]
Metacritic86/100[25]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[26]
Exclaim!9/10[3]
The Guardian[27]
NME[28]
Tiny Mix Tapes[29]
Pitchfork8.6/10[2]
Q[30]
Rolling Stone[1]
The Times[31]
Vice (Expert Witness)A−[32]

At Metacritic, which assigns a standard rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides received an average score of 86, based on 22 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[25] Writing for Pitchfork, Sasha Geffen praised the album as "sprawling and beautiful, while still keeping the disorienting, latex-pop feel of her fascinating production technique" and said that while Sophie's "early singles exhibited a keen feel for economy and a killer sense of humor, OIL makes a bid for transcendent beauty."[2] Peter Boulos of Exclaim! said, "For all the praise that could be heaped on the bulk of Sophie's output, the best that comes to mind is that it sounds like no one else could have made Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides. This is the kind of music that, in 20 years, we may look back on as a pivotal point in changing the trajectory of the pop music sound."[3]

Reviewing the album for AllMusic, Heather Phares compared it favorably to Sophie's preceding release Product, claiming "Sophie is never indecisive as she takes her sounds and concepts to extremes. Where Product felt like a collection of alien pop hits, Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides abounds with interludes, passages, and major statements that allow her to dig deeper on the album's second half."[26] Joe Rivers of Clash wrote, "Sophie manages to incorporate the personal without detracting from what set her apart in the first place, and it makes for a record that's as affecting as it is thrilling."[33]

Accolades
Year-end lists
Publication Accolade Rank Ref.
Crack Magazine The Top 50 Albums of 2018
1
[34]
Noisey The 100 Best Albums of 2018
31
[35]
Pitchfork The 50 Best Albums of 2018
18
[36]
Stereogum The 10 Best Electronic Albums of 2018
1
[37]
Uproxx 20 Must-Hear Pop Albums of 2018
19
[38]
Decade-end lists
Publication Accolade Rank Ref.
Allmusic Decade in Review
-
[39]
Pitchfork The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s
74
[40]
Awards
Ceremony Category Result Ref.
61st Grammy Awards Best Dance/Electronic Album Nominated [41]

Track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."It's Okay to Cry"Sophie3:51
2."Ponyboy"Sophie3:15
3."Faceshopping"
3:57
4."Is It Cold in the Water?"
  • Sophie
  • Believe
3:32
5."Infatuation"
  • Sophie
  • Believe
4:40
6."Not Okay"Sophie1:49
7."Pretending"Sophie5:53
8."Immaterial"
  • Sophie
  • Believe
3:53
9."Whole New World/Pretend World"
  • Sophie
  • Believe
9:08
Total length:39:55

Personnel

Music

  • Sophie – lead vocals (1–3, 6 and 9), background vocals, production and mixing
  • Cecile Believe – lead vocals (2–5, 8 and 9) and background vocals (1)
  • Noonie Bao – background vocals
  • Banoffee – background vocals (8)[42]
  • Nick Harwood – background vocals
  • Benny Long – mixing

Artwork

  • Eric Wrenn – art direction
  • Charlotte Wales – photography
  • Julia Wagner – set design
  • Coco Campbell – dress design
  • Emily Schubert – design (dress design)
  • B34 – design (textiles)
  • Nick Harwood – creative direction
  • Sophie – creative direction

Charts
Chart performance for Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
Chart (2018–2021) Peak
position
New Zealand Heatseeker Albums (RMNZ)[43] 6
UK Album Downloads (OCC)[44] 87
UK Dance Albums (OCC)[45] 2
UK Independent Album Breakers (OCC)[46] 20
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)[47] 21
US Top Dance/Electronic Albums (Billboard)[48] 20

Release history
Release formats for Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
Region Date Format Label Ref.
Various 15 June 2018 Digital download
[8][9]
21 December 2018 12" [49]

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