Young-Girl Forever is the shimmering new electro-pop album by Vienna-based artist Sofie Royer. It follows her 2020 debut, Cult Survivor, and 2022’s Harlequin.
The album paints a bold portrait of how it is to be a female artist today – amid capitalist trappings, existential uncertainties, and constant feeling that you’re out of step with other people your age. Royer borrowed the term “Young-Girl” from Preliminary Materials for the Theory of a Young-Girl, originally published in French anarchist journal Tiqqun. The book portrays the Young-Girl as a symbol of consumerism
under modernity.
Young-Girl Forever oscillates between optimism and doom – it celebrates the Young-Girl while also rebuking the culture that created her, and so expresses desire for true liberation.
Released: November 2024
Cat: STH2501LP
Label: Stones Throw Records
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Tracklist
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