Sofie Royer by Jasmin Baumgartner
SHARES NEW SINGLE + VIDEO “YOUNG-GIRL (ILLUSION)”
Young-Girl Forever
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Vienna-based, multidisciplinary artist Sofie Royer announces her third album Young-Girl Forever due November 15th via Stones Throw. Young-Girl Forever paints a bold portrait of the contradictions of being a female artist today – with all of its anarchist freedoms and capitalist trappings.
Alongside the album announcement, Sofie shares her single “Young-Girl (Illusion),” which is a song describing a girl who gains her life force from the rabbit fur coats she wears and arrives with a video directed by Sofie and Grégoire Léon-Dufour. At the beginning of the video, Sofie attends a party and quickly becomes the center of attention. But by the end, she’s running for her life, covered in blood, all while wearing a bunny costume. Young-Girl Forever will also include the recently shared single “I Forget (I’m So Young),” which arrived with a video directed by Jasmin Baumgartner.
For the LP’s title, Royer borrowed the term “Young-Girl” from Preliminary Materials for the Theory of a Young-Girl, originally published in French anarchist journal Tiqqun, and republished in English via Semiotext(e). The book portrays the Young-Girl as a symbol of consumerism under modernity, echoed in the album’s themes of craving eternal youth or feeling like an emotionless doll.
Young-Girl Forever‘s shimmering electro-pop songs oscillate between optimism and doom. The album celebrates the Young-Girl while also rebuking the culture that created her, and so expresses desire for true liberation. As Royer puts it: “Instead of clinging tightly to what you perceive as correct – or even real – I think sometimes you just have to turn the lights off and surrender.”
This fall, Sofie will be performing headline shows in New York City and Los Angeles, along with select dates across Europe. Check out the full tour routing below and purchase tickets HERE.
Born in California to Austrian and Iranian parents and now based in Vienna, Royer draws inspiration from everything and everywhere – from Viennese classical traditions to her studies in psychology and philosophy. She’s a multidisciplinary artist who believes in “total art”, or using every medium for self expression: after picking up the violin at age three, she’s become a painter, model, DJ, and worked at Stones Throw and Boiler Room. In the period following her 2020 debut Cult Survivor and 2022 album Harlequin, Royer has opened for the likes of LCD Soundsystem, Lana Del Rey, and Air, and she brings the energy of her live shows to her new record. Earlier this year, Royer released “Paris is burning,” a duet with Alexander Dexter Jones.
Upcoming Live Dates
10/11 – Hannover, DE @ KiezKultur Festival
11/11 – NYC, US @ Baby’s All Right
11/13 – Los Angeles, US @ El Cid
11/30 – Berlin, DE @ Berghain Kantine
12/02 – London, UK @ Omeara
12/13 – Paris, FR @ New Morning
Young-Girl Forever
Sofie Royer
November 15, 2024
Stones Throw Records
1. Babydoll
2. Young-Girl (Illusion)
3. Nichts Neues im Westen
4. Keep Running (Sebastian in Dreams)
5. Indoor Sport
6. Sage Comme Une Image
7. I Forget (I’m So Young)
8. Ghost Town
9. Tigerbunny
10. Lights out baby, entropy!
11. Saturdee Nite
12. Fassbinder
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