Soap&Skin shares Lana Del Rey cover from TORSO, out today on Play It Again Sam
Soap&Skin
Shares Cover Of Lana Del Rey's "Gods & Monsters"
New Album "TORSO" Out Today
(22nd November) via Play It Again Sam
ORDER: ‘TORSO’
https://soapandskin.ffm.to/torso
Soap&Skin releases her first covers album TORSO today (November 22nd) via Play It Again Sam, featuring a cover of Lana Del Rey's "Gods & Monsters" as a digital bonus track.
Uncut Magazine calls the album: “An eclectic covers collection, wreathed in chamber-orchestra arrangements and solemnly intoned in the singer's spellbinding, doleful, Nico-ishtones.”
Anja Plaschg alias Soap&Skin has always had a special talent for reinterpreting songs with her own unique approach. When the Donau-Festival invited her in 2022 to perform all the cover songs she had composed over the years, she came up with the idea of a permanent collection - now released as TORSO.
Listen to "Gods & Monsters" (Lana Del Rey Cover)
https://youtu.be/LpbotqOjaSE
One of the strongest transformations on the album is the digital bonus track, Plaschg's version of Lana Del Rey's "Gods & Monsters". If Lana Del Rey still wants “fame” and “liquor” and that “slowly” in 2012, Soap&Skin sings: “fame and liquor?”, “that is nothing holy.” And sunny lethargy turns into an experimental and mysterious electro soundscape.
Other new interpretations are Cat Power's "Maybe Not", as well as the recent single David Bowie's "Girl Loves Me" with it’s breathtaking video, Tom Waits' "Johnsburg, Illinois", Janis Ian's "Stars" and "Pale Blue Eyes" by The Velvet Underground among others.
The twelve songs on "TORSO" were recorded in Vienna by an ensemble under Anja's direction. “For the first time,” she says, “it's actually more my style to assemble the music in a safe space, alone at home, from previously recorded samples.” Still, maybe what is created collaboratively must be recorded collaboratively too.
SOAP&SKIN Live:
10.01.25 AT-Graz – Orpheum
11.01.25 AT-Salzburg – Rockhouse
17.01.25 AT-Vienna – Wiener Konzerthaus
19.03.25 PL-Warsaw - Niebo
20.03.25 DE-Berlin - Volksbühne
23.03.25 DE-Hamburg – Elbphilharmonie
25.03.25 BE-Gent - Theaterzaal Vooruit
28.03.25 FR-Paris - Gaité Lyrique
29.03.25 IT-Milan - Santeria
05.09.25 AT-Vienna – Arena Open Air
Album artwork & tracklist:
Tracklist
1. Mystery Of Love (Sufjan Stevens)
2. God Yu Tekkem Laef Blong Mi (Hans Zimmer)
3. Born To Lose (Shirley Bassey)
4. Gods & Monsters (Lana Del Rey) *
5. Maybe Not (Cat Power)
6. Voyage, Voyage (Desireless)
7. Johnsburg, Illinois (Tom Waits)
8. Girl Loves Me (David Bowie)
9. Stars (Janis Ian)
10. Pale Blue Eyes (The Velvet Underground)
11. What's Up? (4 Non Blondes)
12. The End (The Doors)
Album Preorder:
https://soapandskin.ffm.to/torso
