Soap&Skin shares new single, "Girl Loves Me" from TORSO, out 22nd November on Play It Again Sam
Soap&Skin
Shares New Single & Video,
"Girl Loves Me"
New Album "TORSO"
Out 22nd November via Play It Again Sam
PRE-ORDER: ‘TORSO’
“Jagged edges and claustrophobically intense”
NME
“Sombre, steady, implacable”
The Quietus
“A prodigious talent emerge”
Clash Magazine
“Prepare to bow down to the new Queen of Singing Sad Piano-Based Songs”
Drowned In Sound
oap&Skin announces new single “Girl Loves Me” from her forthcoming cover album “TORSO” which will be released on November 22nd via Play It Again Sam.
No artist in the world covers music as movingly as Soap&Skin. "Girl Loves Me" is Anja Plaschg's brilliant interpretation of one of the key tracks of David Bowie’s final album “Blackstar”. The Austrian singer-songwriter originally performed the full Bowie-album alongside Anna Calvi & Laetitia Sadier in Paris, Amsterdam and Hamburg in 2018. With its slightly yodelling, slippery vocal “Girl Loves Me” seems to have been written for Plaschg.
The incredible and breathtaking video was shot at the Erzberg in the Austrian Alps, around 1000 year old chestnut trees in Burgenland, and in a sawmill.
Watch the video for “Girl Loves Me”:
https://youtu.be/UiP0xpqjV4E?si=AOZWQFdJkgVnU2Kv
Listen on streaming services:
https://soapandskin.ffm.to/girl_loves_me
More on TORSO...
“I hear a song,” says Anja, “and feel there's something else I'd like to add. Then I don't listen to the original. Sometimes not for years. I record the songs from memory.” So she hasn't heard The Doors' "The End" for over seven years now. An old favorite song, a little time capsule. Similar to Shirley Bassey's "Born To Lose".
Other new interpretations are Cat Power's "Maybe Not", David Bowie's "Girl Loves Me", Tom Waits' "Johnsburg, Illinois", Janis Ian's "Stars" and "Pale Blue Eyes" by The Velvet Underground among others. The strongest transformation, however, was certainly 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. 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 - Graz, Austria – Orpheum
11.01.25 - Salzburg, Austria – Rockhouse
17.01.25 - Vienna, Austria – Wiener Konzerthaus
23.03.25 - Hamburg, Germany – Elbphilharmonie
05.09.25 - Vienna, Austria – 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
