Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides

The album's working title was Whole New World. In an interview with Jezebel, Sophie stated that she "didn't really see a lot of value in the album as a musical statement. But the industry seems to find it very important. If I want to get my music heard, which I do, it’s kind of crystallized as an album." She also revealed her plans to release an accompanying "double remix" album, originally intended to include remixes made by her friends. == Composition ==

''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, dream pop, trap, bubblegum pop, and musique concrete. Singer Cecile Believe can be heard on all vocal tracks on the album except "Not Okay", which contains sampled vocals from Kota Banks. Songs The opening track "It's Okay to Cry" is a ballad that begins with Sophie softly and intimately singing with 1980s-style synthesizer arrangements, before the song intensifies and Sophie's vocals crescendo to a wail. "Ponyboy" and "Faceshopping" are playfully aggressive and hyperactive tracks that make use of pitch shifting. "Ponyboy" contains references to BDSM, while "Faceshopping" alludes to themes of transgender identity and transhumanism. ==Promotion==

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. 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". The third and final single, "Faceshopping", deals with gender, beauty, and the body and features vocals by Cecile Believe. ==Critical reception==

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". ==Accolades==

Banks was initially uncredited on the album. This has since been changed on most streaming platforms, due to the song containing prominent samples of her vocals from an unreleased collaboration with Sophie. ==Personnel==

Music • Sophie – lead vocals (1–3, 6 and 9), background vocals, processed vocals (7), production and mixing • Cecile Believe – lead vocals (2–5, 8 and 9), background vocals (1), processed vocals (7) • Noonie Bao – background vocals (track 9) • Banoffee – background vocals (8) • Nick Harwood – vocals • Benjamin Long – mixing, vocal engineering, studio engineering • Kota Banks – sampled vocals (6) Nick Harwood listed without specifying whether he performed background or lead vocals or which songs he appeared on. 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==