Portland, OR post punk/dark wave band Soft Kill have announced the release of their sixth studio album 'Canary Yellow'.
The follow up to 2020's Dead Kids, R.I.P. City, was produced and mixed by Rob Schnapf, and will be self released on October 31. Pre-order your copy here.
The band words: "Instead of hiring a publicist or paying for promotion we have decided to handle the release of this album totally independent and removed from the standard music industry model. This is 100% funded and assembled in house by Soft Kill."
Check out the album's tracklist and watch the video for their new single "Magic Garden", below.
Portland, OR post punk/dark wave band Soft Kill have released their new single "Always Running".
The song is their half of new 7" split with El Paso, TX post-punk/shoegaze trio Lesser Care,out now on à La Carte Records. Grab it here.
Soft Kill's brilliant A-side "Always Running" was previously only released as a demo version on Not Quite Dracula Music via Cercle Social Records. This studio version of the song shines and encapsulates the sound and tone Soft Kill has achieved and honed over years of releases and relentless touring. "Always Running" comes off the heels of 2020's Dead Kids, R.I.P City and in advance of 2022's forth-coming full-length.
Portland, OR post punk/dark wave band Soft Kill have revealed their new single "Sky".
This is the band's first studio recording since 2020’s critically acclaimed “Dead Kids, R.I.P. City” pairing the new line-up of Nicole Colbath, Shaun Durkan, Conrad Vollmer, Daniel Deleon and Tobias Grave with producer Rob Schnapf.
“Press Play” is a shift into new territory, exploring tension and sonic violence to reach a cathartic ending to the anxiety that courses through the track’s 3:24 run time.
Soft Kill’s sixth studio album will be release this fall (TBA).
Portland, OR post punk/dark wave band Soft Kill have dropped the video for their new single "Floodgate". featuring New York based musician Tamaryn.
The song is taken from their forthcoming new album 'Dead Kids, R.I.P. City', which will be out on November 20th via Cercle Social Records. Pre-order your copy here.
Portland, OR post punk/dark wave band Soft Kill have unleashed the video for their new single "Pretty Face".
The song is taken from their forthcoming new album 'Dead Kids, R.I.P. City', which will be out on November 20th via Cercle Social Records. Pre-order your copy here.
UPDATE 19/10/2020: "Pretty Face" is our new Single of the Week!
Portland, OR post punk/dark wave band Soft Kill have announced the release of their new album 'Dead Kids, R.I.P. City'.
The follow up to 2018's Savior, was produced by David Trumfio (Built To Spill, Wilco, OK Go) and mastered by the legendary Howie Weinberg (The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana), and will be out on November 20th via Cercle Social Records. Pre-order your copy here.
A story odyssey of sorts told in ten parts, ten songs - each track essentially a character - the album, explores, through a beguiling mix of personal memory, allegory, and narrative structures by turns both poetic and stinging, a long and complicated relationship with a dark version of Portland OR. It’s songs that tell of the fractured and fragile legacies of those lost during the city’s last couple decades as it moves from soggy backwater to unheard of growth and tech-fueled transformation.
Two years in the making, desperate, redemptive, its contrast of light and shadow favoring the latter, Dead Kids, R.I.P. City is like no other album in the genre, a kind of doom pop Drugstore Cowboy featuring the brave and abandoned, the tender and the afflicted, all teetering in memory on the edge of the city. For all the sadness and pain of addiction haunting it, however, the record, by its very existence, proves that hope doesn’t necessarily win but that, even if at great cost, it can. It’s what makes Dead Kids, R.I.P. City so powerful beyond just the scope of its dark luminous sound and indelible melodies, and is one of the many reasons you’ll carry it with you.
Check out the album's tracklist and watch the video for their new single "Roses All Around", below.
Portland, OR post punk/dark wave band Soft Kill have unleashed the video for their new single "Tin Foil Drip".
The song is taken from the split 7" with Portrayal of Guilt on Closed Casket Activities, recorded and produced by Dave Trumfio at Kingsize Soundlabs, LA, CA. Buy your copy here.
The band will release their new album 'Dead Kids, R.I.P. City' on 2020 via Closed Casket.
The video was directed N.A. Young Boy. Take a look below.
Portland, OR post punk/dark wave band Soft Kill have unleashed the video for their new single "Saint".
The song, featuring additional vocals and musical arrangements from Adam Klopp of Choir Boy, is out now b/w "The Pearl" via Cercle Social Records. Buy your copy here.
The video was directed and created by Miami-based artist RA Image. Take a look below.
Portland, OR post punk/dark wave band Soft Kill have unveiled the video for their latest single "Trying Not To Die".
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their new album 'Savior', which came out in May via Profound Lore Records. Buy your copy here.
The video was directed, shot, and edited by Samuel Gehrke. Take a look below.
