SOFT VEIN Through Blinds [limited translucent dark GREEN] LP VINYL 2025
Product.Nr.: 48613
EAN: 0628070645312
Label: ARTOFFACT
EUR 24,99
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Product Details
| Artist: | SOFT VEIN |
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| Title: | Through Blinds |
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| Format: | Limited Edition on TURQUOISE coloured Vinyl! | |
| Year: | 17.01.2025 | |
| Label: | Artoffact | |
| Tracklist: | A1 Through Blinds A2 Zwischenfall A3 God Whispers A4 Gray Space A5 Soft Devotion (Gentle Prayer) B1 Falling B2 Oblivion B3 Black Bag B4 Wasting Days B5 Dreaming |
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| Info: | On his sophomore album
‘THROUGH BLINDS,’ electronic artist SOFT VEIN
boldly pushes forward, finding common ground with his debut album
‘PRESSED IN GLASS’ while evolving and carving out a
musical identity of his own. Dancefloor ready even at its most bleak
and melancholic, the 10-track album draws from both the familiar and
the new, creating a unique blend of “nostalgic
futurism,” with the sig- nature duality of SOFT
VEIN’s sound on full display. Entries like
“Falling”, “Through Blinds” and
“Wasting Days” swim and sway in the night, painting
bleak, darkly romantic pictures of love and loss; while
industrial-tinged tracks like “God Whispers” or
“Black Bag” scathe and sneer and stalk, shades of
something sinister and paranoid shining through. On the
album’s themes and sound, SOFT VEIN’s Justin
Chamberlain says: “This album is more about me as an observer of others, and sometimes even feeling like an observer in my own life. I wrote in this very ‘detached narrator’ sort of way…a lot of yearning, watching and waiting kind of stuff. That’s where the title came from. There’s influences you’d probably expect like Depeche Mode or Clan of Xymox or Nitzer Ebb, but I was also heavily influenced by The Blue Nile and Genesis and Prince. Film and video game scores too, especially Brad Fiedel’s work on the Terminator 2 soundtrack. I was revisiting a lot of things that are very nostalgic for me while making this record.” Sonically, the album stays true to these themes, eschewing the icy cold landscape of the first album for heat, desire and danger - mixing/mastering engineer Ewan Alastair Kay (Kontravoid, Zanias) is responsible for the album’s polished sound. Beds of cascading synthesizers and dreamy guitars reveal an aching sentimentality. Rhythms pump and throb from drum machines and bass synthesizers. Strange, metallic percussion and sonic textures fill the spaces between, sounding all at once like obsolescence and futurism, nostalgic yet unfamiliar. Chamberlain’s is the voice of a passionate yet detached narrator, sighing, moaning and sneering over it all – observing, longing, and waiting for the unknown… |
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