Soap&Skin aka Anja Plaschg releases debut album

‘Lovetune For Vacuum’ - out on PIAS

Following the release of her debut EP, Soap&Skin is to release her debut album on PIAS.
Called ‘Lovetune For Vacuum’, the album will be preceded by a single, ‘Spiracle’.

Few musical discoveries in recent years have been as staggering as that of Soap&Skin aka Anja Plaschg. The sheer force this eighteen year old artist injects into her compositions almost beggars belief, her songs consuming every last drop of her with no regard for grace or beauty. Then again, the 14 deeply melancholic compositions of piano, crackling electronica and inimitable vocals which oscillate between a whisper and a scream on this debut, are so drenched in beauty and gracefulness, one could crumble on hearing them.

‘Lovetune for Vacuum’ is an unwavering line of drama, inner conflict and melancholy - It’s impact lies in its paradoxicality: remarkably mature on the one hand, yet feeding on unbridled youthful exuberance on the other. The songs on the album were written between 2005 – 2008 and have been recorded back at Anja’s place - mostly just by Plaschg herself, who rather resembles a tragically rebellious heroine flung into the present like a shivering ghost of the Victorian Brontë sisters, far too worldly-wise for such a young slip of a girl.

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