Description
Sofftness: defeated punk for an age that has already defeated itself.Four friends with a shared love of post punk (and a varied list of past band hauntsincluding No Peeling, Slumb Party, White Finger & Headcut), Sofftness made a shift indirection instead of resurrecting what had already burned through. New band: newstart. No chasing relevance, no performing correctness, no pretending to be the kindof punk band someone else might approve of.Their debut album Sofft Power was recorded over three impatient days with JonahFalco (Fucked Up), who caught the band in that raw, twitching state betweenfrustration and clarity. The title twists the language of diplomacy — ‘soft power' asculture, attraction, persuasion, shared values — but here those tools have curdled.Culture becomes content, attraction becomes getting rated, persuasion becomesadvertising, shared values become something you perform for an audience that isn'treally watching. Lyrically, Sofft Power also pushes back against the wider musicindustry obsession with metrics and marketability — an ecosystem that flattens risk,rewards predictability, and treats artists less like creators and more like endlesslyreplenishable inventory.Sofftness are refusing to play along.Sofft Power is what remains when persuasion has failed — not hard power, notrevolution, just endurance. These songs found their way through the cracks of work,friendship, ambition, and everyday life in a world that keeps on insisting somethingmeaningful is happening. There's no grand rebellion, just the slow realisation thatnothing has changed. Defeated, disillusioned, sick of the charade — not becausewe expect anything to shift, but because we still believe in the connection.Somewhere in all of this — the cracked edges of British punk, the motorik throb ofKrautrock, the Australian post‑punk worshipping — something new started tobreathe. Something Sofft. It's punk without the performance of punk. It's the refusalto pretend.
Titles
01. Night Moves 04:00
02. Forced Fun 03:21
03. Going Through 03:28
04. Life Ghouls 05:21
05. Leave Me Alone 03:31
06. End Of An Era 03:19
07. Superior Waste 03:23
08. Sofft Power 04:58
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