The Soft Moon to play Hare & Hounds

Birmingham Promoters are teaming up with It’s Just Noise and Radio Black Forest to bring San Fransisco post-punk dark noise experimentalist The Soft Moon to Birmingham!

The Soft Moon was never intended for the public’s ears, but you found it, were drawn in by its danger, and insisted that others hear. Oakland’s Luis Vasquez began the project in order to better know his own self. While 2010′s ‘The Soft Moon LP’ was recorded entirely in solitude in an utter absence of expectation, the ten songs that make up the new album, ‘Zeros’, were written and recorded between days of the road. The result is complete immersion.  Listen closely and you’ll hear the sounds of the creatures and people that survived whatever catastrophe created this space: chirping insects, bawling whales, strained howls, jungle percussion, tribal chanting. It’s this basic stuff that makes Zeros familiar—the animal need to not be alone in the dark, to be heard by another living thing even whilst working solo, the Soft Moon as the lone wolf.

“… it makes oblivion seem like an enticing prospect.” – 8.1/10, Pitchfork

“The band captures the essence of the production that made bands such as Joy Divison and Bauhaus so memorable without sounding dated.” – 4/5,  Sputnik Music

The Soft Moon play Hare & Hounds Birmingham on Tuesday 27th November, with support from Dracula Lewis. Tickets available here.

Check out the video for ‘Circles’:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=b9t8Oex9BpQ