not super familiar with the writer Matt Bluemink but I'm finding a lot of use out of this article linking Mark Fisher's concept of hauntology and the "slow cancellation of the future" in music with SOPHIE, who is (the recency and tragedy of her passing still stings too much to start using "was") pushing the potential - both sonically and philosophically - of contemporary music and form.

although PC music/hyperpop has already become a sort of cottage industry and inside joke in itself (no disrespect to 100 gecs or whatever) - it really goes without saying how much this movement was one of the biggest breaths of fresh air in popular music, and how SOPHIE was starting to even transcend that in a way that went beyond just "oh look it's like a parody of capitalism/consumerism" (although you could argue it was like that at the start) into explorations into the transcending of the minds and bodies we are mostly stuck in on this earth. to me, SOPHIE was far more cyberpunk/post-cyberpunk than any shootemup chrome robot videogame or neon-soaked photo of some random city skyline. i don't know. just spitballing. it's a good article. i hate most pitchfork articles but this was a great memorial. even publications as old and institutional and stupid as The Atlantic knew she was something special, something more . she will be missed!