Soap & Skin - Narrow

03/11/23

The 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, Narrow, 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 Lovetune for Vacuum, the gifted young composer was thrown into a world of hurt that we as outsiders and listeners can only imagine. Her mini-album Narrow channels that pain and extreme sense of loss into seven new songs plus a cover of 'Voyage voyage' by cult '80s popstar Desireless.