Sodl

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 has performed at renowned events such as the opening of the Wiener Festwochen, the Popfest, and as a support act for Bilderbuch. She has also appeared internationally, including at the Sound of Europe Festival in Turkey, the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, and on tour with Cari Cari throughout Switzerland. In 2026, she will perform at Eurosonic Noorderslag in the Netherlands, followed by a tour through Austria and Germany.
All it takes is one of her live shows to be swept away by her explosive force. Sodl is a raw diamond — and one can only hope no one ever dares to polish her. But not to worry: she wouldn’t let that happen anyway.