Anja Plaschg grew up in a small village called Gnas in south east Styria, where her parents have a farm. She has played piano since she was six. At the age of 14 she began violin studies and developed an interest in electronic music. She attended the Graz Polytechnic for Graphic Design, but dropped out at 16 and moved to Vienna shortly afterwards. There she studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in the master class of Daniel Richter, but at 18 dropped out again.
Musicians like Xiu Xiu, Cat Power, Björk, Nico, Aphex Twin and composers like Sergei Rachmaninoff or Arvo Pärt have had a great impact on her music.
After only playing a handful of concerts she was already being dubbed a "Wunderkind". In 2008 she played German singer Nico in the play "Nico - Sphinx aus Eis" by Werner Fritsch in Berlin and Vienna, performing several songs in it, including "Janitor Of Lunacy", from her first EP.
Her first album, called "Lovetune for Vacuum", was released in March 2009. It received excellent reviews and placed in the Austrian Top 10. The album also achieved chart positions in Germany, Belgium and France. Music journalists have already claimed to see in her a new star of Austrian pop.
In 2010 her song "Mr Gaunt Pt 1000" was used in the television commercial for Ford's Mondeo. In the 2010 French film "Mes chères études" (also known as "Student Services"), the song titled "The Sun" plays during the credits. Her tracks 'Brother of Sleep' and 'Marche Funèbre' were used in the soundtrack for Universal Pictures thriller 'War Games: At the End of the Day' in 2010.
The death of her father in 2009 was a key element on her mini-album Narrow, which was released in February 2012.
Deathmental
Soap&Skin Lyrics
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And thy lust wants my hash life
Hell won’t tolerate hymns
You once seemed to love
The tumbling of infarction
The oddments of destruction
The effort to stay
Life lays in your heart like in a coffin
Stop faking suffering like a child
Bonds of silk and vows of lead weight
In rotten milk, this was your feast plate
??? what time to come
Now all your veins burst
All fears and wrongs
Hell won’t tolerate hymns
You once seemed to love
The tumbling of infarction
The oddments of destruction
The effort to stay
A blackmail decay
Life lays in your heart like in a coffin
Stop faking suffering like a child
Bonds of silk and vows of lead weight
In rotten milk, this was your feast plate
The lyrics to Soap&Skin's "Deathmental" are dark and haunting, and seem to be about someone who is struggling with their own mortality and their place in the world. The first two lines, "Cede to wash the knife / And thy lust wants my hash life," suggest that someone is trying to kill the singer, and their desire for death is infecting the singer as well. The line "Hell won’t tolerate hymns" seems to suggest that the singer is afraid of the afterlife, or that they believe they will be punished for something they've done.
The second verse, "You once seemed to love / The tumbling of infarction / The oddments of destruction / The effort to stay / A blackmail decay," is more abstract, but seems to be about the person who is trying to kill the singer. The "tumbling of infarction" could refer to a heart attack, and the "oddments of destruction" could be the remnants of the person's life. The last two lines suggest that the person is holding on to their life even though they are suffering, perhaps out of a sense of duty or guilt.
The chorus repeats the same lines, "Life lays in your heart like in a coffin / Stop faking suffering like a child / Bonds of silk and vows of lead weight / In rotten milk, this was your feast plate," which seem to be about someone who is pretending to suffer, or who is hiding their true feelings. The "bonds of silk and vows of lead weight" could be a metaphor for something that seems light but is actually heavy, like a burden that the person is carrying. The last line, "In rotten milk, this was your feast plate," is perhaps the most disturbing, suggesting that the person has been living on something disgusting or poisonous.
Overall, "Deathmental" is a bleak and disturbing song that is open to interpretation. It seems to be about someone who is struggling with their own mortality and their place in the world, and who is perhaps trying to escape from their pain through death.
Line by Line Meaning
Cede to wash the knife
Admit to cleaning the bloody knife
And thy lust wants my hash life
Your desire is to end my life
Hell won’t tolerate hymns
The underworld doesn't accept songs of praise
You once seemed to love
It used to appear that you had affection for me
The tumbling of infarction
Falling apart due to a lack of blood supply
The oddments of destruction
The remnants of devastation
The effort to stay
The struggle to remain alive
A blackmail decay
A decaying state brought on by manipulation and coercion
Life lays in your heart like in a coffin
Your life is as good as dead
Stop faking suffering like a child
Quit pretending to be in pain like a juvenile
Bonds of silk and vows of lead weight
Promises that are soft on surface but heavy in their consequences
In rotten milk, this was your feast plate
You thrived on things that were rotten and beyond their expiration date
All fears and wrongs
All anxieties and mistakes
??? what time to come
Unknown what's to come
Now all your veins burst
Your veins ruptured
Contributed by Ethan F. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
Ben - Moderator
on Safe With Me
Lyrics updated
Aaron
on Safe With Me
Where in the world did these random lyrics come from?