Sofie Royer is back with “Cowboy Mouth”, the first release since her German-language track “AUTO” from last year, and her 2024 album Young-Girl Forever.
Stream: Sofie Royer – “Cowboy Mouth”
“Cowboy Mouth” was written in Los Angeles in downtime between Sofie’s tour dates across the US in 2025. After reading Patti Smith and Sam Shepard’s play of the same title, she decided to reimagine the play’s characters as Angel and Cowboy – two people who find themselves entangled in a dialogue where much is left unspoken. Made with longtime collaborators and friends from the NYC group Rebounder, “Cowboy Mouth” has a sound inspired by punk and films like Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars and Lynch’s Lost Highway. The song’s sound also pays homage to Sofie’s origins as a musician, and stays true to how she writes her demos; piano as the lead instrument, fingernails clicking against the keys percussively.
The music video for “Cowboy Mouth”, directed by Sofie, is inspired by a box of shoes left on the street, which Jim Jarmusch came across, photographed, and posted to his Instagram. “There was something so decidedly moving yet egregious about all the different pairs,” says Sofie. “I was left wondering who they’d belonged to, who had walked in them; that it prompted my own little silly fantasy of what would play out if I’d tried on a pair, discarded my own, and just kept walking.”
Since the release of her last album Young-Girl Forever, the Austrian-Iranian artist collaborated with Eli Keszler and Brian Nasty, and toured the UK, Europe and USA, playing several headline shows and recently opening for Belle & Sebastian.
Look out for new music from Sofie later this year.
