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The Soft City

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The Soft City have a song, 'Snow Keeps Falling', on the new Cloudberry e.p., 'Last Train To Christmas". Named for the April March song, the 3" CD also features Strega, Twig, and Champagne Riot. See
Cloudberry Records Blog for details.
The Soft City's first single came out on
Cloudberry Records but is now sold out. It isn't really representative of what we sound like now, but if you like we can send you the files - message us via myspace.
We're on the lookout for a label to release our debut album, the master tapes of which we have just got - will keep you posted. Its 10 songs under an hour and is self-titled and the sleeve is being designed by
Ian Dingman.
We are on the lookout for a rhythm guitarist for live and recording again soon - message the group if you are interested.
NY Popfest 2009

The Soft City: NYC Popfest 2009

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Member Since: 28/10/2006
Band Website: www.indiepages.com/softcity/
Band Members: Dora Lubin, Jason Corace, Phil Sutton, Turner Stough, Kyle Forester.
Alumni: Laura Bridge, Ben Phillipson, Gareth Jones, David O'Malley.
Influences: Velvet Underground & Nico, Modern Lovers, Belle and Sebastian, felt, Bob Dylan, Flying Nun, Girl Group, Motown & Northern Soul, Joe Foster's production on felt's 'Pictorial Jackson Review'.
Sounds Like: [...] half-Postcard Records, half Lloyd Cole & The Commotions, so you know it's bringing out its inner Scot in those hollow guitars, charming melodies and yearning vocals. "My Heart and I" has some bittersweet lyrics that don't sound so bad alongside the jangle and the "I wore my fringe like Roger McGuinn" vocals. Like all the best pop songs, though, it draws from its influences and manages to create something modern and relevant for today. I'm just wishing I was listening to this in the car on a Saturday afternoon, rather than a dreary Tuesday night at home.
- Alex Loves You and Your Silly Pop Songs
The second song is courtesy of The Soft City. The band has changed a lot since their Cloudberry single. Well, at that time is was mostly Phil with help from many of his friends. Now it is a band in the whole sense of the word. Phil doesn’t take control of the main vocals anymore, that duty is now Dora’s. Also Jason Corace (from A Boy Named Thor, do you remember?) plays the electric guitar and Phil goes to his favourite instrument, drums, the same he played on Kicker and the underrated but amazing Velocette. The song “Snow is Falling” reminds me to Kicker, and that’s a good thing! A pop song with capital letters, a POP SONG. That’s what it is. What is funny about this Christmas tune, as Phil points out, is that the New York band are one Jew, an agnostic and one unidentified! Who would have thought! Listening the song you would have thought The Soft City was all about joy in Christmas time!
- Roque, Cloudberry

Record Label: Cloudberry, Little Pocket Records,
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Trimdon Grange Explosion

Ben Phillipson, who played guitar for Kicker (Phil's old band), and who played guitar on the first Soft City single, as well as with Eighteenth Day of May, Comet Gain and others, has a new group, Trim...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:29:00 GMT

Free down load : Soft City, Live at the Cake Shop 2009

A recording of Saturday night's Cake Shop show is available to download or stream from http://www.box.net/shared/dsruaqhf5vYou'll have to cut and paste the link into your browser as Friendface won't l...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:18:00 GMT

Cinema Red and Blue

Cinema Red and Blue is David and Anne Laure from Comet Gain, Andy and JB from Crystal Stilts, Phil from The Soft City, Gary from Ladybug Transistor, and Kyle from Ladybug Transistor, Crystal Stilts, w...
Posted by on Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:39:00 GMT

Kilter

That said, Kilter is the monicker for my old Comet Gain / Velocette mucker Sarah Bleach's new music project. It's still early days, but she's put a couple of demos up and very fine they are too. I par...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:52:00 GMT

Facebook

The Soft City have a Facebook page too btw. It has pretty much the same stuff as on this page, but whatever floats your boat...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:47:00 GMT

Jooon!

Well busy for three days! June 22nd sees the final day's recording of our ten-song, as yet untitled LP. It was recorded mostly at Gary Olson's Marlborough Farms studio, and partly at Jason's. Gary wil...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:10:00 GMT

Recording

We spent today recording with Gary Olson at the Marlborough Farm Studios. We recorded the basics for five songs - Capital Soul, One Last Look, Fallin' Star, Young and Dumb, and We Are All / Not the Sa...
Posted by on Sat, 16 May 2009 19:43:00 GMT

NYC Popfest 2009

Well we finally managed to play a show! It was a lot of fun, and the other bands were all really good, and friendly, as was the crowd. There are some pictures of the evening up on Flickr and we've pos...
Posted by on Fri, 15 May 2009 14:39:00 GMT

The Projects have an album out!

The Projects are releasing a new album, titled Words of Love Broadcast in Code. The Projects are Graeme Wilson, David O'Malley (r3mote), Alex Lawton Mawdsley, Phil Sutton (Kicker, Comet Gain),  Ed Bal...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:03:00 GMT

Christmas Song

Just for our friends on MySpace...You can download our Christmas song, Snow Keeps Falling, from the link below.http://www.box.net/shared/c5go9l2z4mYou'll have to cut and paste this into your browser -...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:10:00 GMT