View basket “New Lions and the Not Good Night” has been added to your basket. Soft Hell Pill SKU: MEX2511 Barcode: 184923125115 18.00 £18.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Mexican Summer Released Date: 26th October 2018 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Soft Hell, Pill’s second full-length album, is a raucous, splintering dispatch from New York City, animated by the madcap ingenuity of a foursome finding a palpable sense of joy and play in expressions of caustic, black humour. Like the contradiction of the album title, which references our acceptance of everyday miseries, it’s a slew of dichotomies, a frenzied cutup. It’s bleeding saxophone and lustrous feedback sounding somehow pastoral, and winking hooks subtly infused with venom. Pill’s lyrics are severe and funny, cryptic and straightforward, but never didactic. They reliably interrogate power. Vocalist and bassist Veronica Torres, a poet and visual artist, has cited as influences J .P. ‘The Big Bopper’ Richardson and Ian Svenonius, apt references for her wildly expressive range. Atop the clattering rush of opener “A.I.Y.M.” she uses an ambiguous narrator to complicate gendered stereotypes, while “Fruit,” a coolly pulsing vamp, explores the paralysis of political anxiety. “What am I allowed to create or destroy?” she asks in “Power Abuser,” highlighting the inanity of needing to ask for permission. Pill resent complacency, whether in political or creative senses. “For me this band’s about being provocative with sound,” said saxophonist Benjamin Jaffe. Drummer Andrew Spaulding said the album title, Soft Hell, critiques the “work-to-play” cliché of New York life, with its breakneck, competitive pursuit of comfort. Torres added that it evokes sexual bondage, describing Soft Hell as a reference to the cyclical monotony of humans harming one another. Artist Pill Genre Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label Mexican Summer Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings 1. Softer Side 2. A.I.Y.M? 3. Double Think 4. Dark Glass 5. Midtown 6. Fruit 7. Plastic 8. HaHa 9. Sin Compromiso 10. Power Abuser 11. Soft Hell 12. 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