Name: Lenses
Brand: Soft Metals

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Catalogue number

90185

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2013-07-16

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Supplier US

Secre­tly

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Sales:8.875

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817949018559

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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Soft Metals

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Disco

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Soft Metals is the electronic romance of *Ian Hicks* and *Patricia Hall* of Portland, Oregon. They create dark, romantic, electronic dance music using vintage synthesizers and drum machines. Their unique sound is influenced by experimental noise, avant-garde, early industrial music, minimal synth, 1980s Chicago house, synth pop, and italo disco.

Inspired by their shared love for late 70s to early 80s analog synthesizer music, Soft Metals came together in April of 2009 to write songs. Through moody, experimental and improvised sessions together, they build their songs without knowing which influence will take the lead.

If you enjoy artists such as Cosmetics, //Tense// or White Car then you are sure to appreciate Soft Metals' captivating sound. Other similar artists include Automelodi, Xeno & Oaklander and Geneva Jacuzzi among others.

Soft Metals is an electronic duo formed in 2009 by Ian Hicks and Patricia Hall currently based in Los Angeles, California.  They met in late 2008 at a DJ night hosted by Patricia in Portland.  Work began on their self produced, self recorded 2nd LP "Lenses" in the summer of 2012.  They sketched out what would become the song "Lenses" and work then continued into the fall and winter.  When they went into recording album 2 they wanted to focus more on a sound with beats and rhythms you can move your body to, melodies you can connect with emotionally, and vocals that coax your mind into a dreamy introspective luminal space.  The idea behind "Lenses" is about breaking out of thought patterns and previously held ways of seeing yourself and the surrounding world.

Lenses

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