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Bruised Dawn directed by Zeb Ringer

Metal.wet

by Soft as Snow

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FFFHHH A highly engaging album from Soft as Snow, at moments some of their best work I've heard. Smoky vocals and suggestive rhythms, 'palms' and the title track are winners. Favorite track: Metal.wet.
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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Limited 140g black vinyl LP.

    Includes two-sided insert with lyrics.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Metal.wet via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Limited edition of 100 copies on black and clear 'smoked' vinyl.

    Each copy includes a screen print made in Berlin by album designer Anna Bernhardt. The prints are 11.75 x 11.75" and are on 100 lb (220 gsm) paper.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Metal.wet via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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1.
Skin High 03:12
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2.
Palms 03:53
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3.
Whip (feat. Brother May) 03:35
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4.
Metal.wet 03:37
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5.
Bruised Dawn 03:58 video
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6.
Silk and Gut 01:06
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7.
Glued 03:27
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8.
pierced. 03:24
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9.
Midas 03:26
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10.
Your Love 02:44
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about

"Oda Starheim and Øystein Monsen have developed a mercurial and genre-curious style, fusing analog and digital textures and wavering between production fidelities while touching on strains of art pop, electronica, and trip hop... 'Metal.wet' is a maze of immersive loops and samples, built atop the pair’s immaculately detailed production and Starheim’s otherworldly vocals. Starheim’s melodies feel like an alien siren call, ringing in coiled chants above the track’s blur of synths." – Under The Radar ('Metal.wet' track premiere)

Unbound by place or genre, mercurial, experimental pop duo Soft as Snow find freedom to intuitively reflect the disarray of human connection with their intricate, shape-shifting pop production. With each successive release, the duo evolves, unfurling into their own poetic sound, now fully realized on their intimate, third full-length, Metal.wet.

The oft-present trappings of male-female duos are eschewed here as the Berlin-based Oda Starheim and Øystein Monsen contribute equally across a canvas of analogue synthesizers, samplers, live drums, and processed guitars. At once a part of and yet apart from the zeitgeist, their forward-thinking modernity stretches the limits of expectations across Metal.wet's ten insouciant tracks. Fans of Tirzah, Hype Williams, and even Angelo Badalamenti will find much to love in this haunting work peppered with ASMR moments and rough sampling wrapped in high production –– twinkling glasses and sirens in the distance, rhythms and voices up front. The result is synth-driven, noisy, and dripping with laidback, confident sensuality.

Although Starheim's voice begins the album in a whisper, it quickly becomes apparent that the group has jettisoned their previous tendency to bury and distort her vocals. Nested in a bed of thorny electronics and broken rhythms, her multifaceted vocals might bring to mind Kazu Makino of Blonde Redhead or Hope Sandoval fronting Massive Attack. London MC Brother May (Mica Levi, CURL) makes an appearance on the driving and ethereal “Whip,” while Øystein’s own voice appears for the first time in a state of languid background haze.

Soft as Snow create and record across Europe. Defiantly averse to genre, the pair become vessels for their “electronic music pushed to the brink of collapse” (The Wire), previously released by Infinite Machine and Houndstooth. Informed by backgrounds in film and performance art, “there’s a surrealism that comes with watching Soft as Snow in the flesh,” (Vice) as seen at L.E.V. and Lunchmeat Festivals. Collaborations with visual artist Guynoid, designer AGF Hydra, and sculptor Camilla Steinum add depth to the corporeality of their “strange, mesmerising and utterly unforgettable” electronic experimentations. (DJ Mag).

credits

released November 8, 2024

Written and produced by Soft as Snow in Berlin and Marseille
Mixed by Chris Elms at Westwood Studios, Stockholm
Mastered by Heba Kadry, NYC
Track 3 ‘Whip’ features lyrics and vocals by Brother May
Track 4 ‘Metal.wet’ features keys by Minna Etein

Bio:

Soft as Snow exists in a hybrid of deconstructed pop and club culture. Their deeply immersive live shows combine shapeshifting electronic experimentation with multifaceted vocals and alien, warped visuals – creating a world of glitchy, uneasy metamorphosis. Releases include critically acclaimed albums on Houndstooth and Infinite Machine, and EPs on Orb Tapes and Jollies Records among others.

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