
Captured Tracks present ‘Deeper’, the third full-length studio recording from American post-punk band The Soft Moon.

Captured Tracks present ‘Deeper’, the third full-length studio recording from American post-punk band The Soft Moon.

The Portland duo Soft Metals present their debut self titled LP on Captured Tracks. Ian Hicks and Patricia Hall, music and voice, have combined to make a mechanical, robotic yet very human record and it’s the result of the by-play at work between Hick’s machine like synths, effects and beats and Hall’s ethereal and dreamy vocals. The album includes 10 synth-pop track.

From the Bauhaus-influenced record cover, to the dead thuds that pound every corner of “The Soft Moon”, there is something imposing and stark about Luis Vasquez’s debut record. It casts a bleak shadow, like a graying tower block. The record heavily recalls the industrial and goth 1980s, eras of music bathed in blackness, yet beneath the squall and the otherwise monolithic sound poke out some impressive moments of clarity.