SOFT MUSIC PRESENTS...
SOUP ACTIVISTS
This is some amazing weirdo-punk post-pop out of St. Louis—think ’60s-inspired TELEVISION PERSONALITIES-adjacent stuff if they let Gordon Gano write lyrics and play xylophone for them. The band is helmed by Martin Meyer of LUMPY AND THE DUMPERS notoriety, and takes the energy and angsty shock of that project and gives it the JONATHAN RICHMAN treatment with sinisterly sweet storytelling lyrics and simple melodies that get stuck in your head like a food stain you can’t get out. Slightly reminiscent of Devon Williams leaving OSKER after their antithetic punk scene opus “Idle Will Kill” to form FINGERS CUT MEGAMACHINE and whatever else he’s doing these days.
- Tim Janchar, Maximum RocknRoll
CLASS
"The Artist works in a museum
And that museum is rocknroll
In a world of meme punk rockabilly grandads
It’s the classicists that really have something to say.
Straight lines, hooks, and a clear path to your heart.
They might not be dbeat heart throbs
But no one else can give you that
feeling that you can hold on to a moment
Like you are driving too fast down route 60
And it’s never going to end.
In 20 years when you skulk the dark alleyways of wherever punk’s red fern grows, they won’t be talking about Dwight Twilley, the Looks, or the Nerves, they will be looking for a little CLASS."
- Tobi Vail and Hayes Waring
SILK CUTS
c86 influenced indie from Exeter.
THE MOATS
Local janglers chanelling The Byrds and Neil Young via a sloppy punk prism.
