Soft Hills - Departure
by Maarten Schiethart
published: 22 / 4 / 2014
Label:
Tapete Records
Format: CD
intro
Enjoyable but monotonous second fourth album from the Soft Hills, the project of Seattle-based experimental musician Garett Hobba
The unrecognized genius behind the Soft Hills is Garett Hobba whose knack for shoegaze and dreampop music can't pass by unnoticed. His languished West Coast calm at times has some of Chris Isaak's ease with nostalgia, though his music lacks that immediate pop appeal. Sooner a rolling carpet of sound, 'Departure' appears gentle enough to reach a much larger audience. "Spit me out on a foreign distant shore" he sings which precisely sums up where he has failed. Safely keeping abay, the album goes nowhere else than beyond its safe haven. The tambourine banging on 'Belly of a Whale' won't either help. The strumming thunder on the closing 'Stairs' underlines where this album has gone astray.
Track Listing:-
1 Golden Hour2 Black Flowers
3 Road To the Sun
4 The Fold
5 White Queen
6 Reverie
7 How Can I Explain?
8 Here It Comes
9 Blue Night
10 Belly of a Whale
11 Stairs
Band Links:-
https://twitter.com/thesofthillshttp://www.thesofthills.com/
https://www.facebook.com/thesofthills
https://thesofthills.bandcamp.com/
http://www.tapeterecords.de/artists/the-soft-hills/
Label Links:-
http://www.tapeterecords.de/https://www.facebook.com/tapeterecords
https://twitter.com/tapete
https://www.youtube.com/user/tapeterecords/videos
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