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| Soft People | New Moon Soft People (USA), is releasing today a music video for single "New Moon". This is the second single taken from their upcoming Album "Absolute Boys", due October 2020 via Sandwich Kingdom. The Music Video comes with an exclusive Interview via Psychedelic Baby Mag. American band Soft People is releasing today a new Music Video for single New Moon. The song is taken from their upcoming album "Absolute Boys" to be released in October 2020 via their own label Sandwich Kingdom. "Absolute Boys" is a meditation on queer romanticism as a modality for pushing back against oppression. ABOUT THE BAND Soft People is an indie pop duo comprised of Caleb Nichols (Port O'Brien, CHURCHES) and John Metz (Grand Lake); two gay songwriter-producers, veterans of the early-2000's Oakland, CA indie rock scene, and married couple. The duo is gearing up to release their sophomore album, "Absolute Boys, " (the follow up to 2017's "American Men"), which works through themes of gender; what it means to be male; the differences between men and boys; what these differences mean in relation to patriarchy. While 2017's "American Men" took up existential issues surrounding American politics, climate apocalypse, and violence, "Absolute Boys" is a meditation on queer romanticism as a modality for pushing back against oppression. Dream-pop stunner "New Moon" is the second single from the album. Tight drum machines and fat synths power the track, while dreamy guitars swirl and angle above. All of this is anchored by Nichols' vocal delivery: a baritone meditation on desire, missed connections, and the passion of a singular moment. The cadence of the song, along with its orbital structure, simulates the experience of celestial bodies moving in and out of gravity with one-another. Listeners can feel the push-pull of these elliptical shapes — sometimes near, sometimes far — but always existing in relation to each other. It's a banger of a track that calls to mind the best of Beach House, but with the National's Matt Berninger on the mic. ABOUT THE MUSIC VIDEO The video for "New Moon" came from an idea that had been brewing in Nichols' head for years. As a teenager, he was, like lots of people, very enamoured with the 1994 Blind Melon video for the song "No Rain, " with its infamously strange and much beloved "Bee Girl." Nichols envisioned picking up the story of the Bee-Girl, more than twenty years later: what would she be up to in 2020, during quarantine? "New Moon" features Nichols' portrayal of a much older Bee Girl; she's fallen on hard times, it seems, as she talks to herself and dances through a barren landscape by the train tracks. Green hills are seen in the distance, but it's clear that things haven't always gone according to plan. Despite all of this, the Bee Girl is still dancing, still being her strange self, and she's even got a Bee Boy companion, played by other Soft Person John Metz. Metz is featured in the video on his skateboard, giving a shout to his queer skating heroes (Unity Skateboards, hello!). The result is a funny, strange, surreal, and moody dreamscape that very much embodies the queer strangeness and indie pop sensibilities of Soft People. Of course this isn't Nichols' dancing debut: he had some memorable moves in the video for Port O'Brien's 2008 smash-up "I Woke Up Today, " (don't forget the outtakes), and his passion for the Bee Girl is documented in this Bamm.tv podcast he recorded back in 2012. write your comments about the article :: © 2020 Jazz News :: home page |