The Soft Moon – Zeros

This review is gonna be totally biased by the fact I really love the Soft Moon.

I’ don’t know if it’s november, a much appropriate period of the year for this kind of mood, but I feel like their music should be the soundtrack of my life 24/7.

This new record, Zeros, is just brilliant and perfectly matches the expectations created by the Total Decay EP. The formula hasn’t changed, and as usual mr. Luis Vasquez worked on this album in perfect solitude. Some would have expected him to include in the creation of Zeros the band that has been with him during the last tour, quite a stable line-up now, but no. Solitude is just necessary for writing. And, honestly, you can feel it all. The music in Zeros is just as spooky, tearing and eerie as we have learned to love under the Soft Moon brand.

With Zeros seems that the horror-movie-soundtrack scenario is shaping up to a more song-like form. Gloomy rays are breaking through the walls of noise, shedding some light on the compositions.

Occasionally you can hear it in songs like Crush, even though we’re talking about 1 minute 30, after a good 2:30 intro that something’s coming out of there. Something that sounds like the out takes from the Pornography sessions.

This process is complete at its best with Insides, another great chapter of the Soft Moon’s guide “New Wave for Dummies“,  which is probably the catchiest single of the whole album.

At the moment they have released the video for the haunting Machines, even though they declare that they’re on the making of the video for Insides.

One of the main characteristic of this album is the crescendo. And it’s not a crescendo that brings a song to a proper conclusion, but it’s a costant growth of anxiety and fear that leaves you stranded without a solution.

It feels like Vasquez has finished vomiting violently his dreary feelings on us and started getting more control on the process of sorting them into a musical form. Honestly I hope he won’t get too much control as I really didn’t mind the gothic puke.

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