Sofie Royer by Jasmin Baumgartner
PLAYING LOS ANGELES AND MEXICO CITY THIS WEEK
YOUNG-GIRL FOREVER OUT THIS FRIDAY VIA STONES THROW
Young-Girl Forever
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Vienna-based, multidisciplinary artist Sofie Royer shares “Babydoll,” the final offering from her forthcoming album Young-Girl Forever, arriving this Friday. Performed in both French and English, “Babydoll” is a playful electro-pop ballad about “the desire to fit in and needing to perform in society,” inspired by Erving Geoffman’s book Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. It comes with an 80s style lyric video directed by Sofie and Grégoire Léon-Dufour.
Young-Girl Forever oscillates between optimism and doom, and paints a bold portrait of the contradictions of being a female artist today. The LP’s title is borrowed from the French anarchist zine Preliminary Materials for the Theory of a Young-Girl which dissects the figure of the “Young-Girl” – a symbol of consumerism under modernity. Preliminary Materials… came to Royer at exactly the right moment: she had already been writing lyrics about performativity and the transience of time, so the trope of the Young-Girl became the album’s throughline. Other singles from Young-Girl Forever, “Indoor Sport”, “Young-Girl (Illusion)” and “I Forget (I’m So Young)” home in on the figure Young-Girl, celebrating her while rebuking the culture that created her.
Royer is a multifaceted artist who believes in “total art” or using every medium for self expression. After picking up the violin at age three, she became 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 Young-Girl Forever.
Last night, Sofie performed at New York City’s Baby’s All Right ahead of her upcoming shows at Los Angeles’ El Cid and Mexico City’s Foro Indie Rocks later this week. Sofie will also perform in the UK and Europe before the end of the year. See full upcoming live dates below and purchase tickets HERE.
Upcoming Live Dates
11/13 – Los Angeles, CA @ El Cid
11/14 – Mexico City, MX @ Foro Indie Rocks
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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