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'lovetune for vacuum' is an unwavering line of drama, inner conflict and melancholy, remarkably mature on the one hand, yet feeding on unbridled youthful exuberance on the other. the album's songs were recorded mostly just by plaschg herself, who rather resembles a tragically rebellious heroine flung into the present like a shivering ghost of the victorian bronte sisters, far too worldly-wise for such a young slip of a girl.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50409939501387,"sku":"312023","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50409939665227,"sku":"312024","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/73ef8cb5-9cea-413e-a062-1923d56105c7_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726632922"},{"product_id":"des-teufels-bad-original-soundtrack","title":"Des Teufels Bad (Original Soundtrack)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAustrian artist and music producer, Soap and Skin presents the original score from the film \u003ci\u003eDes Teufels Bad\u003c\/i\u003e (The Devil’s Bath), directed by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala. Anja Plaschg is central to this cinematic project as she also appears in the leading role in this feature film, in the period drama which premieres at Berlinale in February 2024. The Devil’s Bath gives a voice to the invisible and unheard women of the rural past; it portrays the harshness of their daily lives defined by religious dogma and taboos which still resonate down the ages. A film based on historical court records about a shocking, hitherto unexplored chapter of European history. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Solfo","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50416045490507,"sku":"2191343","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/b1f2ea7d-cf62-a829-000c-0c313d64b266_a4f8edd7_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726694977"},{"product_id":"narrow","title":"Narrow","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe expression 'an old soul in a young body' has been attached to Anja Plaschg, aka Soap and Skin, more than once and, as she releases her new, entirely self-played and produced mini-album, \u003ci\u003eNarrow\u003c\/i\u003e, she again sounds wise beyond her years. When Anja Plaschg's father died suddenly of a stroke just a few months after she released her troubling, cathartic debut album \u003ci\u003eLovetune for Vacuum\u003c\/i\u003e, the gifted young composer was thrown into a world of hurt that we as outsiders and listeners can only imagine. Her mini-album N\u003ci\u003earrow\u003c\/i\u003e channels that pain and extreme sense of loss into seven new songs plus a cover of 'Voyage voyage' by cult '80s popstar Desireless.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PIAS","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50484382433611,"sku":"2054945","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50484382171467,"sku":"348918","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Narrow_53646c39_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727590101"},{"product_id":"from-gas-to-solid-you-are-my-friend","title":"From Gas to Solid \/ You Are My Friend","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eGas to Solid \/ You Are My Friend\u003c\/i\u003e is the third album from the woman known as Soap and Skin, and Anja’s first in six years. There are reasons for her retreat, and search for a safer haven, given the preceding intense sequence of events – almost instantaneous acclaim and fame in her native Austria and across mainland Europe leading to intrusive media attention and battling expectations while protecting her integrity; then parenthood, and then beginning a new record, while the world outside continues to alienate and melt down. If Anja’s search for shelter has created something of a restorative oasis, a more balanced adult view than the rawer, angrier aspects of her earlier work, the stunning, wide-reaching From \u003ci\u003eGas to Solid…\u003c\/i\u003e still reflects the struggle to find meaning, answers, and a place to survive. The album follows a similar trajectory to her 2009 debut \u003ci\u003eLovetune For Vacuum\u003c\/i\u003e and 2012’s \u003ci\u003eNarrow\u003c\/i\u003e - both Top Ten albums across Europe, the latter topping the chart in Austria. This was unexpected given the music’s quietly devastating beauty, vivid poetry and compositional ambition, fusing classical, electronic, gothic, avant-rock, torch song and singer-songwriter traditions. Over the new album’s opening five songs alone, she embraces becalmed, almost hymnal piano and vocal (\u003ci\u003eThis Day\u003c\/i\u003e). spellbound, electronic-flecked tranquillity (\u003ci\u003eAthom\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eItaly\u003c\/i\u003e coloured by organ and militaristic drums, the choral ambience of \u003ci\u003e(This Is) Water \u003c\/i\u003eand the tense grandeur of \u003ci\u003eSurrounded\u003c\/i\u003e, ethereal and earthy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP - 180 Gram Black Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve with 12 Page Booklet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP+ - 180 Gram Black Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve with 12 Page Booklet with Limited Edition White Vinyl 7”.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PIAS","offers":[{"title":"LP.","offer_id":50497866760523,"sku":"1043303","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50497867219275,"sku":"1043302","price":5.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50497867710795,"sku":"1043304","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/f8cf3222-9f8a-415e-bd5b-ac15f10f5374_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727734214"},{"product_id":"torso","title":"Torso","description":"\u003cp\u003eSoap\u0026amp;Skin releases her first cover album \u003ci\u003eTorso. \u003c\/i\u003eAnja Plaschg alias Soap\u0026amp;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 - which is now released as the album \u003ci\u003eTorso\u003c\/i\u003e. The previous albums \u003ci\u003eNarrow\u003c\/i\u003e (2012) and From \u003ci\u003eGas to Solid \/ You Are My Friend\u003c\/i\u003e (2018) also featured covers without being immediately recognized as such. Simply because “it feels good to escape from myself”, says Plaschg. She likes covers - quite literally as a disguise and hiding place.\u2028\u2028\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor example, she first recorded the radio hit “Voyage, Voyage”, originally by Desireless, in 2011 for the soundtrack to Sebastian Meise's film Stillleben. Since then, it has been part of her live repertoire and has grown with her over the years. On \u003ci\u003eTorso\u003c\/i\u003e it finds its place as a lifetime version.The first single, the album opener “Mystery of Love”, originally released by Sufjan Stevens, rearranged with French horn and trombone, admits us delicately into the sound world of \u003ci\u003eTorso\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther 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. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PIAS","offers":[{"title":"Black LPx2","offer_id":50530968240459,"sku":"2219029","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50530967880011,"sku":"2219028","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/TORSO_684b598d_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728089517"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/soap-and-skin.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}