SODL

In the organizer's words:

In Austrian, there is the beautiful word goschat, which is inadequately translated as "cheeky". The term is best explained by the 21-year-old musician Sodl: you just have to go to one of her concerts and let yourself be carried away by her explosive elemental force. Sodl is a rough diamond that I hope no one ever tries to polish. But there's no danger of that: she wouldn't allow it.

Contrasts are typical of Sodl's music, in which viscosity and intimacy are replaced by confrontation and powerful eruptions. For example in the new Sodl single, "I am a Woman": after a stupendous country verse with acoustic guitar, violin and restrained horns, the guitars suddenly screech and this insane chorus bursts out of Sodl as if from nowhere, with this slightly scratched voice that really shakes you up and touches regions of the heart that you thought had long since died.

Born in the Salzkammergut, Sodl grew up in a musical family. She was already making music as a child, strumming melodies on the piano and learning the accordion from the age of seven. "Music has always been the most natural form of expression for me," she says. Sodl began singing and playing the guitar at 15 and soon afterwards wrote her first songs, influenced above all by artists such as Alice Phoebe Lou, Phoebe Bridgers and Fiona Apple; Jimi Hendrix is her eternal hero.

At 16, Sodl presented a song on the Austrian radio station FM4, booked her own concerts, released her debut EP "Flowers on the Moon" in the same year and moved to Vienna at 18. "Always writing", as Sodl describes herself, she works on songs that break through stereotypical gender attributions, combining naturalism and earthiness with anger, empowerment and ludicrous melodies.

Accompanied by her band, Matthias Pfaffl on drums, Paulina Scholz on violin and Leo Weidinger on bass, she was able to demonstrate her outspoken stage presence as Buntspecht support at the Arena in 2023 and at this year'sPopfest, Acoustic Lakeside and Waves Vienna. "A secret garden in my womb, I won't hide it anymore", Sodl sings in "Iam a Woman", "I will speak my truth until my voice is sore". Sodl has come to stay.

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