Spiracle by Soap&Skin

Austrian Anja Plaschg goes by Soap&Skin. It’s hard really to find the right words to describe her music. It’s pretty dark, at times piano or string driven, and quite sweeping. This is a Pitchfork discovery, but I’m glad they’re giving her some attention. The comparison to Björk is a good one, in terms of strangeness of vocals and the type of songs you’re going to get, but there are major differences too. She, Anja, seems like a strange and shy person. That’s all I could gather anyway from watching a Deutsch language interview with her. I could be way off, as my Deutsch has never been all that good. The whole album is worth listening to, as I can’t imagine most of you have heard anything like this before.