Name: Soft Metals
Brand: Soft Metals

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Catalogue number

901111

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2014-05-16

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Supplier US

Secre­tly

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Sales:8.875

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817949011161

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

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Soft Metals

Genre US

Disco

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Secretly Canadian

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.

Influenced by "early industrial music, minimal synth, 1980s Chicago house, synth pop, and italo disco," and it's fair to say that traces of all these underground sounds can be detected in their svelte synth-pop productions. But what makes them stand out from the myriad other biters of these sounds is their punchy, purposeful songwriting, their flab-free arrangements and the crystalline vocals of Hall, which come over like a heavily reverbed, robotized descendent of Young Marble Giants' Alison Statton. This is proper electronic pop music, coolly (retro)futuristic but sweepingly romantic, and highly recommended to fans of John Foxx, early Human League and modern day standard-bearers like Xeno &amp; Oaklander and John Maus.

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