SOFT KILL ANNOUNCE 'DEAD KIDS, R.I.P. CITY' RECORD RELEASE LIVE STREAM
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 28TH AT 3PM PT/6PM ET/11PM BST
TICKETS ON SALE NOW
NEW ALBUM 'DEAD KIDS, R.I.P. CITY'
RELEASED NOVEMBER 20TH ON CERCLE SOCIAL RECORDS/COBRASIDE
RELEASED NOVEMBER 20TH ON CERCLE SOCIAL RECORDS/COBRASIDE
ALBUM/SINGLES AVAILABLE HERE
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Celebrating their November 20th release of 'Dead Kids, R.I.P. City', Soft Kill comes to you live-streamed from their hometown of Portland, Oregon on Saturday, November 28th at 3pm PT/6pm ET/11pm BST. Tickets range from $10 (general admission), $25 (ticket plus download of show audio) or $35 (ticket plus screen printed show poster) and the performance will be available to re-watch through Sunday, December 6th.
Videos from 'Dead Kids, R.I.P. City':
Soft Kill had been growing with pretty much every record, but a deep maturation, achieving a level of emotional intensity that even for a band known for exactly that, was nothing short of awe-inspiring and inarguably a high water mark. The question then, was how do they possibly follow that up? Well, here we are, two years later, and Tobias Grave, Conrad Vollmer, Owen Glendower, Daniel Deleon and Nicole Colbath have put any such concerns commandingly to rest with their new album, 'Dead Kids, R.I.P. City', released next week (11/20) on Cercle Social Records/Cobraside.
Desperate, redemptive, its contrast of light and shadow favoring the latter, Dead Kids, R.I.P. City is like no other album in the genre, featuring the brave and abandoned, the tender and the afflicted, all teetering in memory on the edge of the city. For all the sadness and pain of addiction haunting it however, the record, by its very existence, proves that hope doesn’t necessarily win but that, even if at great cost, it can. It’s what makes the album so powerful beyond just the scope of its dark luminous sound and indelible melodies, and is one of the many reasons you’ll carry it with you.
Read more about the album below and get in touch for an advance copy and interview requests.
A story odyssey of sorts told in ten parts, ten songs - each track essentially a character - Dead Kids, R.I.P. City, produced by David Trumfio (Built To Spill, Wilco) and mastered by the legendary Howie Weinberg (The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana), explores, through a beguiling mix of personal memory, allegory, and narrative structures by turns both poetic and stinging, a long and complicated relationship with a dark version of Portland, OR. It’s songs that tell of the fractured and fragile legacies of those lost during the city’s last couple decades as it moves from soggy backwater to unheard of growth and tech-fueled transformation. From the frantic cascade of guitar that carries “Roses All Around” relentlessly toward the track’s vision of rain-filled gutters overflowing with dashed dreams, to the chiming sorrow and yearning of the steadily pounding “Inverness” where we find a strung out young man sitting in a wheelchair somewhere in downtown Portland accepting what fate has brought him, to “Crimey”’s darkly joyous dance groove and the one-two swan-song punch of apocalyptic dreamscape “Oil Burner”, and the mournful, elegiac “I Needed the Pain,” you’ll find the honesty so hard fought for and won through the crucible of Savior paying further dividends on Dead Kids, R.I.P. City. Featuring guest vocals by Choir Boy’s Adam Klopp on “Matty Rue” and Tamaryn on “Floodgate”
Whether it’s Hooper Detox choked with cigarette smoke, the grim and grimy downtown doorways, abandoned industrial buildings on N.Interstate, the confinement cells at Inverness Jail or a midnight apartment building rooftop in Northwest, the scenes that backdrop these characters’ stories offer a scuffed amber portrait of a Portland that is no more. It’s the individuals themselves, however, some dead none forgotten, that turn this tour through Tobias’s past into a fever dream memoriam. Though inescapably nostalgic, it’s the type nostalgia that burns with immediacy, like a post-punk John Steinbeck crossed with Robert Smith crossed with Gus Van Sant.
Dead Kids, R.I.P. City is released November 20th on Cercle Social Records/Cobraside.
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