The expression "an old soul in a young body" has been attached to Anja Plaschg, aka Soap&Skin, more than once and as she releases her new mini-album, "Narrow", entirely self-played and produced, she again sounds wise beyond her years. The teenage wunderkind whose 2009 debut album "Lovetune for Vacuum" charted across Europe attempted to look twice her age in the cover portrait, and if she didn't quite pull it off she certainly made a convincing widow in weeds.
But since her initial success Plaschg has come to know real sadness, not just its verisimilitude. Her father died suddenly of a stroke in July 2009 and her response, the traumatic, cathartic wail "Vater", is as openly emotional and intense as pop music gets, an outpouring of genuine pain in the face of death. The vocals are unsettling and eerie, while the piano-led arrangement, owing more to modern classical than run of the mill singer-songwriters, slips into appropriately dissonant and discomfiting areas. Plaschg has announced a series of tour dates for February and April.
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"Narrow" will be released on 19th March.
10th February - Arena, Vienna, AT
12th February - Volksbühne, Berlin, AT
15th February - Posthof, Linz, AT
16th February - Orpheum, Graz, AT
19th February - Chapelle Saint Sauveur, Saint Malo, FR (La Route Du Rock Festival)
27th February - Freiheiz, Munich, DE
28th February - Kulturfabrik, Luxemburg
11th April - Scala, London, UK
17th April - Le Trabendo, Paris, FR
18th April - Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, BE
20th April - Schouwburg, Rotterdam, NL (Motel Mozaique Festival)
21st April - Kampnagel, Hamburg, DE
4th May - Spielboden, Dornbirn, AT
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