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.^[10] 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.^[11] The next single, "Lemonade"/"Hard", was released in August 2014.^[12]

Product was made available for preorder in September 2015. That month saw the release of "MSMSMSM",^[13] and "Just Like We Never Said Goodbye" followed on 15 October.^[14] The singles "Vyzee" and "L.O.V.E." were released in November 2015 alongside the full compilation.

On 17 June 2025, Numbers announced that Product would be receiving a reissue for its tenth anniversary. The reissue includes the previously released single "Unisil", which was created during sessions for the album, as well as the song "Get Higher", which was originally exclusive to the Japanese CD release of the album. "Ooh", originally known as "Make Respect" was first played live in 2011 and later completed in 2019.^[15][16] The reissue was made available the following day. It will receive a physical release on 11 July on vinyl and CD formats.^[17][18] "Get Higher" and "Ooh" were released as singles along with the reissue itself.^[19][20][21]

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Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	7.3/10[22]
Metacritic	74/100[23]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[24]
Exclaim!	8/10[25]
The Guardian	[26]
The Irish Times	[27]
The Observer	[28]
Pitchfork	6.6/10[29]
Q	[30]
Resident Advisor	4.6/5[31]
Spin	9/10[32]
Vice	A−[33]

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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".^[23] 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."^[25] 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."^[28] 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."^[24] 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".^[34]

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.^[26] 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."^[35]Allan Raible of ABC News similarly remarked on the "stripped down, sugary pop" of Product as "forward thinking, but profoundly difficult."^[36]

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