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.

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