The Sky's Gone Out

The Soft Moon - The Soft Moon [CT85 USA 2010 24-Bit FLAC]

Back at the turn of the last decade, I was impressed with the quality of new bands coming out of the USA, especially those on the Captured Tracks roster. This was the label which gave us Thee Oh Sees, Wild Nothing, Beach Fossils, Craft Spells, Mac deMarco and DIIV - quite a pedigree of young talent.

Luis Vasquez's The Soft Moon was originally a solo project before growing into an evolving semi-permanent band line up. The first two singles, Breathe The Fire and Parallels were immense, brooding works of dark electronics, feedback and throbbing basslines, this - his debut album - follows that same vein, borrowing elements from the darkest reaches of post-punk and industrial technology which explode into your ears with shrill volleys of black noise. Gentler moments like When It's Over are only a brief respite, yet the track pins the album together its simple riff and cavernous vocals. This is Pornography, Unknown Pleasures and Psychocandy all in one record. In another time, this would have been the most impressive debut since the latter....

Bloody marvellous!

A1  Breathe The Fire
A2  Circles
A3  Out Of Time
A4  When It's Over
A5  Dead Love
B1  Parallels
B2  We Are We
B3  Sewer Sickness
B4  Into The Depths
B5  Primal Eyes
B6  Tiny Spiders