Anyone who mistakes Sodl’s forest-fairy aesthetic for a dreamy folk act will be in for a rude awakening with hits like I am a Woman and Mary, The Anarchist. This year’s winner of the Austrian Amadeus Music Award in the FM4 category doesn’t shy away from harsh contrasts — she celebrates them, with Heavy Distortion and flowers in her Rapunzel hair.

With Sheepman (2025), the 21-year-old unveils her self-produced debut album — a tightrope walk between fairytale escapism and feminist outcry. Amid mystical beings, devotion, and female desire, she sings about structural oppression and the struggle for space and visibility as a woman. Musically, the songwriter from Austria’s Salzkammergut region wraps her poetic lyrics in the raw sound of the 1990s.

Accompanied by her band — Matthias Pfaffl on drums, Paulina Scholz on violin, and Leo Weidinger on bass — Sodl toured Austria and Germany as well as Switzerland as a support act for the indie rock duo Cari Cari in spring 2025. With performances at renowned events such as the opening of the Wiener Festwochen, the Popfest, and the Acoustic Lakeside Festival, Sodl is considered one of the most exciting new discoveries in the Austrian music scene. This summer, she’ll perform in Turkey at the Sound of Europe Festival in Istanbul and Ankara, and will open for Bilderbuch.

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